Theatre Three previews Trysts in Toledo this weekend

by PegNews wire

Theatre Three's season of worldly productions continues with a Spanish Golden Age comedy. Trysts in Toledo, aka Los Empeños De Una Casa, is previewing this weekend from December 11-14 and then officially opens Monday, December 15. Purchase tickets online or by calling 214-871-3300.

Written by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, T3's production will be a new English language version by Jac Alder. In the late sixteen hundreds, witty cloak and dagger romances set the fashion for the Golden Age of Spanish literature. These entertaining plays were filled with wit, intellect and mischievous humor that thoroughly delighted the Spanish playgoers.

Trysts in Toledo follows the romantic confusions of a houseful of young nobles and their roguish servants. Astonishingly, one of the greatest literary figures of that time was a nun, Sor Juana, living in “New Spain” which we now call Mexico. Her work displays verbal ingenuity; a dizzyingly complex plot played at top speed, and shamelessly wears its fun-making on its sleeve. A passionate advocate of women’s rights, Sor Juana has a unique position both in secular literature and in the church.

Plus, check out the following clips Theatre Three put together featuring interviews with Director/Set Designer Jeffrey Schmidt and Costume Designer Bruce R. Coleman:

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