Fuga Mundi

A free staged reading of Fuga Mundi by Mar Gómez Glez, a collaboration between Center Stage and SPAIN arts & culture.

Center Stage, the State Theater of Maryland, in conjunction with SPAIN arts & culture, presents a free reading of Fuga Mundi, a new play by Spanish playwright Mar Gómez Glez, in a new English-language translation.

Set in 17th-century Spain, Fuga Mundi explores the complicated lives of women living in an increasingly intolerant state. Audacious sculptor Juana stands at the center of a controversy surrounding her latest work: a statue of the Virgin based on a young Moorish girl. Ordered to redo her masterpiece before the incoming Inquisition comes knocking, she finds herself in the custody of a former love interest turned Mother Superior. This play and its all-female cast explore the politics of gender, sexuality, and race in a society that demands conformity—or else.

The play was developed under the auspices of an International Hot Desk playwright residency at Center Stage, with the support of SPAIN arts & culture, and will be read in a new translation by Professor Jeanie Murphy (Goucher College). The collaboration between playwright Mar Gómez Glez, dramaturg Catherine María Rodríguez, and director Jacob Janssen is an outgrowth of SPAIN arts & culture’s 2013 New Plays from Spain readings.

The reading will be presented in English, with a Spanish text available.

Free admission. 
Seating is limited.
RSVP required.