BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//UCLA Humanities - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:UCLA Humanities
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for UCLA Humanities
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Los_Angeles
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20240310T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20241103T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20250309T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20251102T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20260308T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20261101T090000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251120T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251120T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T082805
CREATED:20251104T190411Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251104T190944Z
UID:2193575-1763665200-1763672400@humanities.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Can Comedia Help Us Understand California’s Past?
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by Zócalo Public Square\, Playwrights’ Arena\, UCLA Diversifying the Classics\, and LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes\, with generous support from Snap Foundation\, Karsh Family Foundation\, Broad Foundation\, and Olga Garay-English \nDuring the artistic and literary boom of Spain’s Golden Age\, theater known as comedia helped audiences on both sides of the Atlantic understand their past and present. Today\, contemporary playwrights have adapted these 17th-century classics to shed light on L.A.’s history\, touching on issues including power and sexuality\, gentrification\, and Black\, Korean\, and Latino identity. \nJoin us under the stars at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes for readings of three adaptations from the 2024 anthology Golden Tongues: Adapting Hispanic Classical Theater in Los Angeles. Barbara Fuchs\, director of UCLA’s Diversifying the Classics initiative\, will introduce central themes of the plays. Playwrights Diana Burbano\, June Carryl\, and Luis Alfaro will offer brief pre-performance remarks and will sign copies of Golden Tongues\, available for purchase from Tía Chucha’s\, during a post-reading reception. \nAdmission is free\, but registration in advance is advised. Visit this page to reserve seats. \nAbout the plays: \nIn Diana Burbano’s Flickers\, a director in early 20th-century Los Angeles becomes embroiled in the perils of Hollywood: ambition and treachery\, prejudice and plagiarism. In her version of Juan Ruiz de Alarcón’s La cueva de Salamanca (The Cave of Salamanca)\, Burbano recreates the magic of the first days of film while exploring its racism. \nJune Carryl’s Florence and Normandie adapts Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s Amar después de la muerte (To Love Beyond Death) and sets the action against the backdrop of the Rodney King uprising. As tensions boil\, two families entwined by location and love find themselves living the American racial nightmare. \nPainting in Red is Luis Alfaro‘s “whitewash” of Calderón de la Barca’s El pintor de su deshonra (The Painter of His Own Dishonor)\, exploring a Chicano painter’s relationship to a real and imagined Spain and an endlessly gentrifying Los Angeles. \nThis program is part of California 175 — What Connects California?\, a suite of free Zócalo events and essays\, bringing together leaders and thinkers from all walks of life to envision California’s next 175 years.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/can-comedia-help-us-understand-californias-past/
LOCATION:LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes\, 501 N. Main Street\, Los Angeles\, 90012
CATEGORIES:Diversifying the Classics
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/11.20.25-Comedia_Webpage-3.png
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR