Tragic, really, how she has to die for him to become interesting.
From international ensemble The SuperGeographics, Maybe Next Time, written by Caitlin George and directed by Jonathan Taikina Taylor, is a continuous and contentious love tale on repeat that searches for an ending that’s more than a body count.
Over three acts, lovers C and X (Violeta Picayo and Juan Diego Bonilla) replay their doomed romance across asynchronous, genre-hopping eras: a Beckettian Lucy & Ricky in the 1950s, a realist melodrama in the 1890s, and a vaudevillian tragedy in Ancient Greece. The pair never changes, but the world around them does, and every era raises different questions.
Their failed attempts exhume the women who were cut down, killed off, or written out before their turn to speak. The result is a séance for our foremothers, who call out from footnotes, from behind curtains, and from old wives’ tales.
Come resurrect your elders on the stage they left behind.
Produced in collaboration with The SuperGeographics, Maybe Next Time is a featured production of Pregones/PRTT's Plataforma: The Bronx-Broadway Showcase for Latinx Theater, a collaborative producing, commissioning, and presenting initiative dedicated to supporting the development and presentation of original works by Latinx artists and companies.
