UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television announces 2019-20 theater season
The upcoming theater season at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television includes the production of Bertolt Brecht's "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui," the opera "Juana" — a collaboration with UCLA Opera and UCLA Philharmonia — and the seminal rock musical "Hair." The season begins in November with "Arturo Ui," Brecht's allegory that satirizes the rise of the Nazi Party in pre-WWII Germany, placing the action in 1930s Chicago. Also in November, "Juana," based on the novel Sor Juana's Second Dream, by UCLA Professor Alicia Gaspar de Alba, tells the story of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, a 17th-century feminist genius, theologian, poet, author, composer, artist and architect whose life was marked by repeated conflict with men of the Inquisition. The opera features designers from the UCLA theater department and performers from the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. In May, the Ray Bolger Musical Theater Program at UCLA TFT presents "Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical," a celebration of counterculture and the sexual revolution. The season also includes "La Victima," a collaboration between the Latino Theater Company and the theater arts department at East Los Angeles College. One of the most important plays of the Chicano theater canon, "La Victima," written in 1976, spans four decades and focuses on the Mendoza and the Villa families, who arrive in the United States with dreams of a better life.
