SEASON 30 | august 2018
FUTURX: a festival of new and avant-garde LatinX performance
August 15-18, 2018—Wednesday-Saturday
Multiple performance times nightly!
Presented by The VORTEX in partnership with Avante Theatre Project
FUTURX is a festival of new and avant-garde LatinX performance designed to explore the many permutations and intersections of LatinX identity in the 21st Century and beyond. We will feature work from playwrights, solo performers, and improv troupes that dives deep into the complexities of LatinX identity, exploring and critiquing the ways that Latinidad engages with questions of race, ethnicity, color, gender, sexuality, religion, class and citizenship.
Our flagship performance is a workshop run of Jesus I. Valles’s one-man show, (Un)Documents, a portrait of family, citizenship, identity and protest on both sides of the border. Valles’s show will run nightly at 8pm, followed by a different late-night performance. These late-night performances include an encore performance by Latinauts, Austin’s award-winning improvised sci-fi telenovelas, solo work by local actors, and an evening of burlesque and spoken word called Sin Verguenza featuring the reigning Queen of Texas Burlesque, Chola Magnolia (crowned at the Texas Burlesque Fest this year).Saturday daytime programming will feature FREE readings of plays by Krysta Gonzales and Briandaniel Oglesby, as well as a workshop of Glass Half Full’s collaboration with Jesus I. Valles and Gricelda Silva, which will use the myth of El Cucuy to speak about ICE and the Border Patrol. Together, these pieces offer no easy answers, ranging far afield from traditional forms and insisting that we find new ways of articulating our relationship to each other as a multinational community in a neocolonial world.
SCHEDULE
WEDNESDAY
7:45pm: Opening Remarks
8:00pm: (UN)DOCUMENTS by Jesus I. Valles
9:30pm: Screening of EL AMOR EN TIEMPOS DE TRUMP by Victor Cazares
THURSDAY
8:00pm: (UN)DOCUMENTS Jesus Valles
9:30pm: LATINX AND . . . New Short Pieces by Heather Maria Acs, Florinda Bryant and Dillon Yruegas
FRIDAY
5-10pm: FRIDA FRIDAY WOC MARKET (VORTEX Yard)
8:00pm: (UN)DOCUMENTS by Jesus I. Valles
9:30pm: LATINAUTS Improvised Telenovelas
11pm: EL CUCUY Ghost Stories
SATURDAY:
2pm READING: BROTHERS SISTERS SANTOS by Brian Oglesby
4pm READING: MAS CARA by Krysta Gonzales
8:00pm: (UN)DOCUMENTS by Jesus I. Valles
10:00pm SIN VERGUENZA BURLESQUE
Tickets
Festival Pass: $50 Priority Seating
Single Tickets: $25-$15 | $25 General Admission | $15 Discount/Artist/Student/Senior/Veteran
Advanced Reservations Recommended. Limited seating.
Funded and supported in part by VORTEX Repertory Company, a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts, and by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.