Víbora y cuervo: Locrine and Other Tales

Performance Dates:

• Friday, August 21, 7pm - at DreamWrights, part of the York Fringe Festival - Tickets here:

• Saturday, August 22, 7pm - at the Appell Center for the Performance Arts

• Sunday, August 23, 2pm - at DreamWrights, part of the York Fringe Festival - Tickets here:

Show Summary: Join OrangeMite for Elizabethan English drama fused with Indigenous Mexican storytelling in our upcoming original play, Víbora y cuervo: Locrine and Other Tales. Featuring a legendary viper, Kwinim Tsan, who brings balance and prosperity to the natural world, our new take on these legends takes audiences on a mystical journey, all while holding fast to our specialty of Shakespearean performance. 

Additional Info: This is our first-ever FringeSpeare, where we perform the little-known works that were, at one time, attributed to The Bard, known as the “Shakespeare Apocrphya.” Very few people would say this play could be by William Shakespeare, but the original 1590s title page does have this tantalizing bit of text: “Newly Set Forth, Overseen and Corrected by Mr. W. S.” Be a part of the first audience in centuries to see Locrine performed!

 
What is Locrine? Locrine is a British origin myth that celebrates the Trojan ancestry of the first Kings of Britain. On the mythic timeline, the play is situated immediately after Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida (after the fall of Troy), but before King Lear. In fact, Lear is an ancestor of Locrine. Our production, Víbora y cuervo: Locrine and Other Tales, pairs this origin myth with other origin myths to explore their power and purpose in our world.