JULY 27, 2024

A Conversation with the fornés institute​

3:30pm
following THE performance of La Viuda
Atlantic Theater Stage 2

María Irene Fornés, one of the most inspiring and beloved artists of contemporary theatre, launched her career as a playwright in the early 1960s. Known as the "Mother of Avant-Garde," her works helped define the experimental off-off Broadway movement by her challenges to American realism, patriarchy, religion, and capitalism with forays into absurdism, queerness, and joy. La Viuda, Fornés's first play, has been an uncharacteristically overlooked text, yet it contains the seeds of all the groundbreaking works she wrote afterward in English, which earned her an unprecedented nine Obie Awards and the admiration of theatre makers worldwide.

 Join members of the Fornés Institute: Anne García-Romero (playwright, scholar, Professor of Theatre at the University of Notre Dame, and co-founder of the Fornés Institute), Lillian Manzor (scholar, Professor, Michelle Bowman Underwood Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Miami, and founder of the Cuban Theatre Digital Archive), and Olga Sanchez Saltveit (La Viuda translator/director, and Assistant Professor of Theatre, Middlebury College) for a conversation about la maestra, her work, this work, and more!