True Colors Fest will come to life at the Santurce Fine Arts Center

As part of the worldwide celebration of Pride Month for Diversity, it arrives for the first time at the Santurce Fine Arts Center under the tutelage of Producciones Acropolis, the True Colors Fest. The festival, which will bring together five works never before presented on the stages of Puerto Rico, will take place from June 16 to July 17, 2022, on the Carlos Marichal Experimental Room.

True Colors Fest is proud to establish history, being the first theater festival where the LGBTQ+ theme and diversity are embraced as the starting point for all the pieces to be presented in the most important theater venue in the country. Besides, is decked out in presenting for the first time in the history of the country and the Center for Fine Arts, the transgender Puerto Rican actress Bárbara Herr, in her award-winning and renowned monologue “Trans-Mission”.

The True Colors Fest 2022 was born with the desire that the general public can enjoy new theatrical proposals aimed at the enjoyment of diversity in an environment of respect, fellowship and pride.

The productions chosen by the evaluation committee, which had the difficult decision to choose five pieces out of 11 that were submitted, are: “Trans-mission” by Barbara Herr; “The Replicas” by Leo Cabranes-Grant; Joshua Harmon’s “My Other Half”; “I don’t care if it hurts” by José Gregorio Martínez; and “What Might Have Been” by Terrence McNally.

During the festival, the public that attends will be able to enjoy the performances of Angela Meyer, Barbara Herr, Josean Ortiz, Magali Carrasquillo, and Nestor Rodulfoamong other great artists.

“Trans-Mission”

Author: Barbara Herr

Direction: louis knight

Presentations: June 16 to 19

In this solo monologue, directed by the film and theater director, Luis Caballero, written and performed by the Puerto Rican actress, Barbara Herr, who after more than 40 years of artistic career and 30 years living her truth as a woman, tells how you prepared for your sex reassignment surgery.

“The replicas”

Author: Leo Cabranes-Grant

Direction: Mariana Quiles

Presentations: June 23 to 26

After being devastated by a hurricane (2017), and after a series of protests that forced a governor to resign (2019), Puerto Rico suffered several earthquakes (2020). For months, a series of aftershocks generated great uncertainty in the country. This is the situation that “Las retorts” is used to frame a moment of crisis in the lives of two homosexual men, who after seven years of relationship face the possibility of a breakup. The work is a reflection on how natural and political disasters have affected Puerto Ricans in recent years.

“My other half”

Author: Joshua Harmon

Direction: Michael Rose

Presentations: June 30 to July 3

Jordan Berman is an ordinary gay boy who lives in New York City in search of his better half; which is easier said than done. So until he meets the right man, something he won’t find browsing Grinder profiles, he avoids lonely nights out in the company of his trio of close friends. But as singles nights turn into bachelorette parties, weddings and baby showers, Jordan discovers that the only thing harder than finding the love of his life is rooting for the loved ones around him. when they do.

“I don’t care if it hurts”

Author: Jose Gregorio Martinez

Direction: Juan Carlos Morales

Presentations: July 7 to 10

Dramatic comedy by the Venezuelan author José Gregorio Martínez, a story of coffee, rain and film endings that tells us about connections that last, where he teaches us that loving is also letting go. How much time you have left? is a constant question in this piece with which the inevitable cannot be prevented: the goodbye between two beings who were born to love each other for life. Daniel and José, its protagonists, carry the red thread of this sublime love story, told between flamenco, tantric love, laughter and unexpected turns capable of sensitizing even the most difficult.

“What could have been”

Author: Terrence McNally

Direction: Ismanuel Rodriguez

Presentations: July 14 to 17

At the same time funny and powerful, the piece, awarded with a “Tony Award” for Best Play in 2014, portrays a woman (Angela Mayer) who pays an unexpected visit to the couple’s New York apartment (Raymond Gerena) of her late son, who is now married to another man (Marcos Carlos Cintron) and have a son (Stephen Miguel Rodriguez) of 6 years. Challenged to face how society has changed around her, generations collide as she revisits the past and begins to see the life her son could have led.

People who are interested in getting tickets and supporting this new initiative can do so through the website of the Fine Arts Center (787-620-4444) or Ticket Center (787-792-5000).