Bonjour,
“Bounds” and “I Want a Country” starting this week!
Join us for the opening week of these two wonderful new plays, “Bounds” by Tino Caspanello, and “I Want a Country” by Andreas Flourakis. Both speak to not just the worldwide crisis of unwanted refugees and vilified immigrants, but to the hunger here as elsewhere, for a more just, humane, and compassionate society. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, these two plays are a profound reflection of what we feel in our hearts. They two will run in repertory, with “Bounds” on Thursdays and Fridays, and “I Want a Country” on Saturdays and Sundays.
Free Champagne and Opening Night Celebrations!
Join us for preview of “Bounds” on Thursday, February 6th with complimentary champagne, or for Opening Night, Friday, February 7th with an Italian themed informal buffet. Both are at 8:00pm. “I Want a Country” will celebrate its Opening with a Greek Themed buffet and more complimentary champagne, Saturday, February 8th at 8:00pm. Why not join us for both? Get tickets for both plays and save $10!
“Bounds” by Tino Caspanello
Buy tickets for “Bounds”
Translated by Haun Saussy
Buy tickets for “I Want a Country”
See both plays, and save $10!
Buy tickets for Both Plays
“Bounds” by Tino Caspanello
Translated by Haun Saussy
February 6 – March 14, 2025; Thursdays, Fridays 8:00pm
Five women are stranded on a beach in an unknown country. They might be displaced persons, refugees, unhoused, undocumented immigrants. What we do know is that they are unwanted. They pass the time by playing games and singing songs, they fantasize about belonging, and they compete. One of them, they know, will be selected. But who will that be? While they wait, bonds are created, ties of affection. “Bounds” is a story about us, about the truths we take for granted, and about a society unable to exist without bonds. It is also about “the others,” about those to whom we open our doors—or refuse. It is a story about cages, violence, dreams, a story that reflects our time, a time when we struggle with the rules, obligations, and prejudices that keep us from looking in the eyes of our neighbors.
“I Want a Country” by Andreas Flourakis
Translated by Eleni Drivas
February 8 – March 16, 2925; Saturdays 8:00pm, Sundays 4:00pm
A group of people huddle in the darkness, clutching suitcases and umbrellas. They have lost their country. Where did it go? They wander in search of a new one. They complain, argue, debate, talk about what makes a place feel like home. Together, they imagine what the country of their dreams would be like: a place where they could find peace, justice, and kindness at last. Though written by Flourakis about the Greek financial crisis of the early 2010s, this haunting and poetic text speaks just as powerfully to our own political moment here in the United States where so many long to replace division and enmity with connection and understanding.
Links for Tickets:
Buy tickets for “Bounds”
Buy tickets for “I Want a Country”
We Made our Match!
Thank you again to the many patrons who, through their generosity, helped us match our grants from the County of Los Angeles and the California Arts Council.
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Merci, and see you at City Garage!
Bounds
I Want a Country
Frederique & Archie & Charles