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Requiem for the Rain Debuts in NYC

Requiem for the Rain is a unipersonal play written by Ecuador’s most famous playwright, Jose Martinez Querolo. It’s all set to make its debut in New York after the successful tour in Dominican republic. The play has been translated into over five languages and performed all over the world. Jose Ignacio Vivero’s direction pulls this play out of time and makes its interpretation immediate. The National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures awarded Vivero in 2019 with an artist grant, he is also a member of the Lincoln Center Director´s Lab.

This play is about the poor, drunken widower of a town’s laundress who morns for his wife, La Jesusa. But where does the guilt of this woman’s death lie? A woman who has spent her life cleaning the wealthy’s dirty laundry. This drunkard is not a good man but he knows intimately the filth we all leave for someone else’s tired hands. This unblinking, and often hilarious look at the hypocrisy of the elite is just as fresh and relevant today as when the play first opened in 1960. Who is to blame for the death of La Jesusa? Perhaps all of us.

The play is performed by Dominican actor Anderson Mendoza in its original language of Spanish with English supertitles. “This play is a very accurate thermometer, to test where we stand as a civilization. I´ve been a New Yorker for over ten years now and it´s powerful to see how this play, from another place and another time still rings true right now, in this city. This is the power of cultural diversity in theatre: simply the act of doing this play here is a harsh examination of the term first world”, Vivero said. This show is made possible by the sponsorship of the DOMINICAN FILM FESTIVAL OF NEW YORK.











When: Sat., Sep. 28, 2019 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: Symphony Space
2537 Broadway
212-864-1414
Price: $25
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Requiem for the Rain is a unipersonal play written by Ecuador’s most famous playwright, Jose Martinez Querolo. It’s all set to make its debut in New York after the successful tour in Dominican republic. The play has been translated into over five languages and performed all over the world. Jose Ignacio Vivero’s direction pulls this play out of time and makes its interpretation immediate. The National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures awarded Vivero in 2019 with an artist grant, he is also a member of the Lincoln Center Director´s Lab.

This play is about the poor, drunken widower of a town’s laundress who morns for his wife, La Jesusa. But where does the guilt of this woman’s death lie? A woman who has spent her life cleaning the wealthy’s dirty laundry. This drunkard is not a good man but he knows intimately the filth we all leave for someone else’s tired hands. This unblinking, and often hilarious look at the hypocrisy of the elite is just as fresh and relevant today as when the play first opened in 1960. Who is to blame for the death of La Jesusa? Perhaps all of us.

The play is performed by Dominican actor Anderson Mendoza in its original language of Spanish with English supertitles. “This play is a very accurate thermometer, to test where we stand as a civilization. I´ve been a New Yorker for over ten years now and it´s powerful to see how this play, from another place and another time still rings true right now, in this city. This is the power of cultural diversity in theatre: simply the act of doing this play here is a harsh examination of the term first world”, Vivero said. This show is made possible by the sponsorship of the DOMINICAN FILM FESTIVAL OF NEW YORK.

Buy tickets/get more info now