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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

Pablo Santiago

Feb 3, 2020, 11:23 AM
Role : Lighting Designer
Order : 160
Pablo is originally from Mexico and is the winner of the Richard Sherwood Award and Stage Raw Award, and he is a four-time Ovation Award nominee. Recent credits include Pulitzer Prize-winning Prism (Los Angeles Opera, Prototype Festival, Sao Paulo-Brazil); Macbeth and Mother Road (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); and Cold Mountain (Music Academy of The West); Place (LA PHIL-Beth Morrison Projects); Proving Up and The Wreck (The ONE Festival, Opera Omaha and Miller Theater); Valley of The Heart and Zoot Suit (Mark Taper Forum); Schoenberg In Hollywood and Threepenny Opera (Boston Lyric Opera); Destiny of Desire (Arena Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Goodman Theatre); Ne Quittez Pas: A Reimagined La Voix Humaine (OperaPhila, O18 Festival); War of the Worlds (Los Angeles Philharmonic and The Industry); Galileo (The Industry); A Midsummer Night's Dream (LA PHIL); Breaking the Waves (Opera Philadelphia and Prototype Festival); Pelleas et Melisande (Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra); Flight, Pagliacci and Madame Butterfly (Opera Omaha);Boris Godunov, On The Town and Das Klagende Lied (San Francisco Symphony); Premeditation, The Mexican Trilogy, Dementia, Members Only and Sweetheart Deal (Los Angeles Theatre Center); Good Grief and Citizen (Kirk Douglas Theatre); I Am My Own Wife (Laguna Playhouse and Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara); Skeleton Crew and The Cake (Geffen Playhouse). Follow Pablo on Instagram @pablosdesign.

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