
Braided Sorrow
About the Play
In the Mexican border city of Juárez, Alma has newly arrived to take a job in an American-owned factory in order to help her family survive by sending money back to her parents and helping to provide for her brother and pregnant sister-in-law. At sixteen years old, Alma is shocked by the dangers of the city–the femicides and disappearances–lurking outside the factory’s walls, until she is visited by La Llorona. In Marisela Treviño Orta’s (MFA '18) poetic Braided Sorrow, Alma is set on a treacherous journey calling on her bravery to end the unnatural nightmares of Juárez.
Please be advised that this performance includes the use of theatrical fog/haze, explicit language, staged violence and sexual assault, and references to violence against women.
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Cast
Role | Name |
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Alma | Sara Alvidrez* |
La Llorona | Kat Guerrero |
Carlos | Orlando Lopez |
Yadria | Maddie Rodriguez* |
Socorro | Nat Payan* |
Eulalia | Dajzané Meadows-Sanderlin |
Señor Fillmore/Chorus | Johan Avila* |
Officer/Chorus | Luis Avalos* |
Chorus | Jason Vernon* |
Chorus | Andrew Lindsay* |
Chorus/Blanca Gomez | Savannah Mazas* |
Creative Team
Title | Name |
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Director | Natalie Villamonte Zito |
Stage Manager | Jordan "J.J." Jones |
Assistant Stage Manager | Savanha Moore |
Scenic Designer | Alex Casillas |
Assistant Scenic Designer | Dorothy Craven* |
Lighting Designer | Victor Maldonado |
Assistant Lighting Designer | Jeffrey Oakley |
Costume Designer | Abigail Mansfield Coleman |
Assistant Costume Designer | Annelies Knight* |
Props Designer | Gina Smothers |
Audio Designer | Colten Langfitt |
Media Designer | Kenneth Collins |
Dramaturg | Meg Mechelke |
Fight Director | Paul Kalina |
Intimacy Director | Owen Brightman |
*Undergraduate student. UI Theatre is dedicated to providing hands-on theatre experience for both undergraduate and graduate students.