By GHE
Directed by Elizabeth Sandlin

Andrea is a member of a prestigious family that lives in a city divided by culture and by a prominent wall. On the other side of the wall, in a place nicknamed "Red Town" a Machiavelic entity, known commonly as the Circuz, has become a parasite of the once thriving city, making it violent, dangerous and corrupt. When her brother, Paulo, accidentaly makes a deal with the Circuz, Andrea is forced to try to save her family from the grasp of the great Illusionist that runs the Circuz and prove to her father, Mario, that she in not a little girl but a woman capable of becoming the city's "hero". Her journey forces her to question: what is good? What is evil? What is Government? What is family? (NOTE: Due to content and language, these plays are recommended for adult audiences only.)

National Hispanic Cultural Center
Friday November 13th, 3:00pm
Free to all

By Aaron Frale
Directed by Eddie Andino

Gerald and Maura are about to lose their house because of a bad loan. Maura looks for a job after twenty years of being a housewife. Gerald takes up Bounty Hunting. They also decide to get a divorce. This comedy is about one couple reconnecting with their life and each other. (NOTE: Due to content and language, these plays are recommended for adult audiences only.)

National Hispanic Cultural Center
Friday November 13th, 7:30pm
Free to all

By Nic Wehrwein
Directed by JoRae Taylor

Endings are sad, beginnings are exciting, the middle is a dance. In the beginning, Courtney dies. In the beginning, Art grieves. In the beginning, they both must accept that things can never, and will never be the same. Told in two distinct timelines past and present Anything and Always offers up two stories: Art and Courtney’s story of love and unavoidable loss (past), and the coming to terms with death, forevers, and memories. (NOTE: Due to content and language, these plays are recommended for adult audiences only.)

National Hispanic Cultural Center
Saturday November 14th, 10:00pm
Free to all

By Beth Iha
Directed by Michael Ali Ellis

Eight prostitutes from across the globe have all arrived at the Pensione Villa Mancaza in Venice, Italy for the first and only 2001 World Congress of Sex Workers, a gathering seeking to bring attention to the lack of legal and human rights for sex workers. Sophea, Karen, Fabiana, Robyn, Mila, Carlita, Chavy, and Alika each have a story to tell and share it in poetry, song, laughter, and some heated debate, especially when Barb arrives to challenge their viewpoints and set them straight. It’s a surprising journey into their world where red umbrellas have nothing to do with rain.   (NOTE: Due to content and language, these plays are recommended for adult audiences only.)

National Hispanic Cultural Center
Saturday November 14th, 4 pm
Free to all

By Riti Sachdeva
Directed by Denise Schulz

Every aspect of the wedding rituals are foied by the impending violence-but it must go on. An Auspicious occassion blessed by the gods must be seen through. The year is 1947, the place is a small village in what is soon to become Pakistan. The British are leaving. The subcontinent will be broken into pieces. Families will flee their ancestral lands, neighbors will turn on each other, and love will find its way through the craks. Yamuna, the young bride turned widow fights to fulfill her duties in a landscape of hungry vultures, mad mobs, and the courageous other. (NOTE: Due to content and language, these plays are recommended for adult audiences only.)

National Hispanic Cultural Center
Saturday November 14th, 1:00pm
Free to all

By Erin Phillips
Directed by Adam Burnett

This is a story about the human struggle between sex, nature, and faith, and the ways in which those tenets of life play out on a young woman and her family as she encounters an awakening of the senses and of down there. This play contains: Sex, possible nudity, violence, betrayal, cottonwood trees that are really women, aphrodisiac pears, a sacred grove, masturbation, penetration, sacrilegious slander, and love. You have been warned. (NOTE: Due to content and language, these plays are recommended for adult audiences only.)

National Hispanic Cultural Center
Saturday November 14th, 8 pm
Free to all

By Kamarie Chapman
Directed by Kim Gleason

Day was there and then it happened. No one was ready and no one had known. All of a sudden it was just there in that space and time with no one but their own emptiness to guide them.(NOTE: Due to content and language, these plays are recommended for adult audiences only.)

National Hispanic Cultural Center
Sunday November 15th, 12:00pm
Free to all

By GHE
Directed by KaHootz

Tristen is a young girl with a large imagination. When news come of her mother’s fatal condition, Tristen alongside sisters Gaela and Selene launch into a fantastical adventure where characters like Gnome, Merlin and Echo instruct them of their mission to unite their mother with the creatures of the Island of Apples.

Auxiliary Dog Theatre
3011 Monte Vista Blvd NE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
Saturday December 5th
Free to all

By Nic Wehrwein
Directed by KaHootz

Young Mars has been on his one for a year and a half. He’s not all alone, but with a mother who works two full-time jobs, Mars is essentially on his own. That changes when Fiddley Diddley, a homeless, alcoholic clown, crashes his ice cream cart into Memorial Park. An unlikely and potentially dangerous friendship develops, eventually leading to Mars inviting Fiddley Diddley home with him. Through his encounter with Fiddley Diddley, Mars, for the first time, sees life as a choice: make his own life or simply follow his father’s path.

Auxiliary Dog Theatre
3011 Monte Vista Blvd NE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
Saturday December 5th
Free to all

By Beth Iha
Directed by KaHootz

Sondok, a 12-year-old Koren girl likes astronomy and wants to be an astronomist. In the kingdom of Silla this is forbidden, especially by her father the king. Girls must do girl things. Her sisters like girl things, but Sondok can’t help herself. Her destiny is different. Despite her own doubts, with the help of a mudang, a Korean shamaness, and her grandmothers spirit, Sondok soon discovers what a girl can really do and eventually she becomes the astronomist she dreamed of and the first queen of Korea.

Auxiliary Dog Theatre
3011 Monte Vista Blvd NE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
Saturday December 5th
Free to all