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FEB. 29 – MARCH 22, 2020

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Directed by JOSÉ LUIS VALENZUELA

A switched-at-birth comedy full of music and dancing!
Burning passion, cunning deception and outrageous melodrama combine in this enormously entertaining homage to Latin American soap operas. A storm brews in the small town of Bellarica, Mexico, when two baby girls are born on the same night in the same hospital. One will have wealth and privilege, and the other will live in poverty. Yet the drama is bound to unfold when a former beauty queen switches the babies at birth in her lust for power. Eighteen years later, fate finds the two girls together again, prompting secrets to be revealed and lies to be unraveled. After all, nothing is impossible in Bellarica!

“[A] terrifically entertaining theatrical roller-coaster… A zany, funny delight.” — L.A. Times


ADVISORY:
Destiny of Desire is suitable for adults and older teenage audiences. This Latin-American melodrama features everything there is to love about soap operas: forbidden romance, sexual content, plenty of plotting and scheming, and moments of overly dramatic violence.

RUNNING TIME: The show runs approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes, including one intermission. 


Promotional photo by Tony Arrasmith/Arrasmith & Associates.

Show Program

 
Engage

DESTINY OF DESIRE: Playwright's Notes by Karen Zacarías

Mar 6, 2020
Natalie Clare

The writer shares artistic insight into crafting this enormously entertaining stage comedy.

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Imagine Yourself in a Telenovela

Mar 24, 2020
Natalie Clare

Take a look at some of the most recognizable telenovela story lines, and imagine what you would do in the given circumstances.

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Artists

Mark Torres

Feb 3, 2020, 11:00 AM
Role : Dr. Jorge Ramiro Mendoza / Casino Dealer / Cop 1
Order : 100

Mark is pleased to be making his Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park debut. He appeared on Broadway as a member of the original cast of Amadeus. Some of his regional theatre activity includes roles in The Country Wife (Trinity Repertory), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Arkansas Repertory), The Normal Heart (Walnut Street Theatre, New Arts Theatre, Dallas), Cyrano de Bergerac (Center Stage), King Lear and Love’s Labour’s Lost (Utah Shakespeare Festival) and Death and the Maiden* and Richard III (Commonwealth Shakespeare *2018 Best Actor nominee, Independent Reviewers of New England Awards). Mark recently played Polonius in a virtual reality film version of Hamlet, produced by Commonwealth Shakespeare and Google. On television, Mark can be seen on Designated Survivor on Netflix and Manifest on NBC, as well as several Lifetime Movie films. Mark received his Master’s in Fine Art from Temple University’s Professional Actor Training Program and holds a Bachelor’s of Art in Theatre and Drama from Indiana University. Mark is a graduate of the Architecture program at the University of Maine at Augusta, where he graduated with honors. Mark lives in the historic Silvermine district of Fairfield County, Conn., with his wife Collene and their dog, Miss Dashwood. Mark is grateful to his terrific agents at Boals, Winnett & Associates.

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