Fresh Ink

March 16 - 27, 2026

March 20, 21, 22: Frederico, My Love by Carla Solari, directed by Carlyle Brown

March 27, 28: Willa Cather is Dying by Kira Obolensky, directed by Noel Raymond

An actress invokes the presence of the poet and playwright Federico García Lorca to explore his life, his work, and his legacy. Through this connection, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery.

In an intimate dialogue with the audience, she brings to life the women of his plays and, in doing so, gradually reveals her own story. The protagonist navigates between admiration and the need to define herself in the face of an impossible and deeply symbolic love.

The play intertwines Lorca's artistic universe with his personal story: his profound connection with the lives of women, his silenced homosexuality, and his assassination at the hands of the Franco regime. Themes that, far from belonging only to the past, engage in a dialogue with the present and prompt us to ask: have the times of persecution, subjugation, and segregation been left behind, or do they continue to resonate today?

Federico, My Love is both a personal tribute to an artist who transformed theater and defied the norms of his time, and the journey of a contemporary woman who, in finding him, ultimately finds herself.

The production includes excerpts from some of his most seminal plays, such as The House of Bernarda Alba, Blood Wedding, Doña Rosita the Spinster, and Yerma, alongside poems and quotes from the poet himself.

We’re in New York City and in Nebraska, a space that exists in the physical world and in the mind; a crucible of memory, art and reckoning. Willa Cather prepares for an interview with a graduate student, Jackie Robinson has just broken the color line in baseball, spring has sprung, and Willa, as her longtime partner, Edith Lewis wrote, is “never more herself than on the last morning of her life; her spirit was high, her grasp of reality as firm as always.” It’s 1947 and even as such momentous events as the Marshall Plan and the beginnings of the House Un-American Committee stir, Edith and Willa are trying to determine what the day will be. An interview, egg salad or chicken salad for lunch, and a look at Willa’s new pages.

Edith, unsung hero of the partnership, is an editor, and the play is filtered through her sharp eyes, as Willa feels something, unknown and unbidden — a “great wave” — is upon her. When that something becomes a cerebral hemorrhage, the interview begins to morph and change, as characters from fiction become real, as the past intrudes, and as Edith struggles to get the interviewer to understand who she is. This is a play about creative partnership, focusing on the unsung heroes of writers’ lives, those who work with them, unknown and unappreciated. It’s about ghosts and rituals, and love and the questions every artist face: what was sacrificed along the way?

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