Las Mujeres

This production is a staged reading, part of Milagro's MUNDO DE LAS MUJERES Women's History Month Festival.

Las Mujeres is a journey through time as we meet the famous Latinas of herstory's past. Marlene, a workaholic engineer who wouldn’t call herself a feminist, has just been the only woman at her firm promoted to a managerial position. After a devastating encounter, Marlene finds reality has faded away and her kitchen becomes... a party. The guests? Frida Kahlo, Rita Hayworth, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, and Minerva Mirabal. Don’t know them? You will. These remarkable women share their stories of art, and revolución with the comfortable and complacent Marlene, but will she wake up?

Playwright Erlina Ortiz is a Dominican-American playwright and theatre maker from Reading, PA. Her heartfelt and humorous plays have been presented across the US and with Power Street Theatre where she is proud to be Resident Playwright and Co-Artistic Director. Erlina believes being an artist is a superpower, she believes in using her powers for good.