Archives: Productions

Title: References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot

Geography: Americas > Northern America > United States of America

Year: 2025

Produced by:

Creative Team: Jose Rivera | Playwright:Jose Rivera Director: Carmen Aguirre

Synopsis: References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot is a surreal, poetic meditation on love, war, and longing set in the Mojave Desert. Gabriela, the lonely wife of a soldier, escapes into magical fantasies involving a seductive Moon, a flirtatious Cat and Coyote, and a teenage neighbor’s yearning, as she awaits her husband Benito’s return from war. Blending magical realism with raw emotional tension, the play explores fractured intimacy, the scars of conflict, and the aching distance between bodies and dreams.

Source: https://www.eatmoreartvegas.com/post/ema-review-references-to-salvador-dali-make-me-hot-scrumptious
Title: Blood Wedding

Geography: Americas > Northern America > Canada

Year: 2023

Produced by:

Creative Team: Federico García Lorca | Playwright:Federico García Lorca Director: Carmen Aguirre

Synopsis: Blood Wedding, presented by Studio 58 and Directed by Carmen Aguirre, reimagines Federico García Lorca’s poetic tragedy within an Andalusian bar. Blending flamenco rhythms, folk traditions, and a sleek ensemble aesthetic, the story follows a young bride torn between duty and desire as her past with the married Leonardo ignites a tragic chain of events. With haunting music, stylized movement, and surreal visuals, this production honors Lorca’s exploration of passion, repression, and the cyclical violence of honour-bound societies.

Source: https://www.createastir.ca/articles/studio-58-blood-wedding-review
Title: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.（2024）

Geography: Europe > Northern Europe > Lithuania

Year: 2024

Produced by:

Creative Team: Tom Stoppard | Playwright:Tom Stoppard Director: Yuri Butusov

Synopsis: In Yuri Butusov’s 2023 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, two minor figures from Hamlet drift through a surreal, war-haunted limbo. Trapped in a looping reality, they flip a coin that never changes and question fate, identity, and free will—echoing Daoist philosophy. Amid eerie encounters with a trickster Player and ghostly presences, the pair confront existential dread, depersonalization, and missed chances for moral action in a world of ash, ropes, and corpses. Their journey becomes a meditation on complicity and lost agency.

Source: https://artfocusnow.com/news/somehow-we-missed-it-butusov-stages-stoppard/
Title: MARKO THE PRINCE

Geography: Americas > Northern America > United States of America

Year: 2008

Produced by:

Creative Team: Jovanka Bach | Playwright:Jovanka Bach Director: Marcy Arlin

Synopsis: Set in a Bosnian-Serbian border village during the 1990s Balkan War, Marko the Prince follows Michael, a first-generation American burying his mother in her homeland. His plans unravel amid fierce religious and ethnic tensions over the village cemetery. Jovanka Bach’s gripping drama exposes how gossip, politics, and identity ignite dangerous conflicts in a fractured community.

Source: https://www.immigrantstheat.org/productions/
Title: NEW WORLD

Geography: Americas > Northern America > United States of America

Year: 1997

Produced by:

Creative Team: Sung Rno | Playwright:Sung Rno Director: Marcy Arlin

Synopsis: Multicultural fables about America. Columbus and Crew discover civilization. Minority gangsters debate their roles in world history. An elderly Korean immigrant ponders his American family and Ali McGraw. Columbus learns origami.

Source: https://www.immigrantstheat.org/productions/
Title: THE ALLURING LITTLE SHOP（2012）

Geography: Americas > Northern America > United States of America

Year: 2012

Produced by:

Creative Team: Radmila Adamova | Playwright:Radmila Adamova Director: Marcy Arlin

Synopsis: Based on a series of 2010 interviews in Prague and Brno, this is a groundbreaking play about Vietnamese Czechs (or Czech Vietnamese): emigres, contract workers, students, journalists, businesspeople, It explores the age-old immigrant dilemmas of adaptation, assimilation, generation gaps, and working conditions.

Source: https://www.immigrantstheat.org/productions/
Title: We are Refugees (

Geography: Europe > Southern Europe > Malta

Year: 2018

Produced by:

Creative Team: Azzopardi, Mario Philip | Director and libretto – Opera

Synopsis: Aħna Refuġjati (“We are Refugees”) recounts the challenges faced by a Syrian family forced to flee civil war—crossing borders, confronting racism and the denial of basic rights, and enduring separation, hunger, loss, and life in refugee camps—while still holding onto brief moments of love and hope for a safer future.

Source: https://timesofmalta.com/article/refugee-themed-opera-to-premiere-on-friday.687843
Title: Asylum Monologues

Geography: Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom

Year: 2006

Produced by:

Creative Team: Linden, Sonja and Bacon, Christine | Script

Synopsis: A testimony-based script built from first-hand accounts of the UK asylum system. The script is updated regularly and can be adapted for events with particular focus areas (e.g., children in the asylum system, access to health care).

Source: https://iceandfire.co.uk/project/asylum-monologues/
Title: Asylum Dialogues

Geography: Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom

Year: 2008

Produced by:

Creative Team: Linden, Sonja and Bacon, Christine | Script

Synopsis: Drawn from real-life conversations between three pairs of friends—one an asylum seeker and the other a British citizen—the script focuses on how their encounters produce mutual, positive transformation and models practical acts of welcome.

Source: https://iceandfire.co.uk/project/asylum-dialogues/
Title: Bahok

Geography: Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom

Year: 2008

Produced by:

Creative Team: Khan, Akram | Choreographer – Contemporary Dance

Synopsis: Set in a fictional airport waiting room, Bahok follows a shifting ensemble of travelers whose intertwined stories reveal how people collide, connect, and pass through liminal spaces. The work blends contemporary dance and theatre to explore transit, identity, and the fragile communities formed while waiting.

Source: https://desingel.be/en/programme/dance/akram-khan-company-nationaal-ballet-van-china-bahok ; https://www.akramkhancompany.net/productions/bahok/