THE OCHRE HOUSE is pleased to announce it’s 2011-12 SEASON WORLD PREMIERE OPENING of its upcoming production, EX VOTO: THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF FRIDA KAHLO is about her surrealist period of art (although Frida Kahlo never saw herself as a surrealist), when she was bed ridden from her trolley accident and heart broken from Diego’s infidelity with her sister, Christina.
As a result of Diego Rivera’s affair with her sister, Frida has an affair with Trotsky, divorces Diego, and her leg is amputated. After Trotsky’s assassination, Rivera is suspect of killing Trotsky and is incarcerated. Frida re-marries Diego and gets him out of jail.
REVIEWS: TO BE ANNOUNCED
OPENS: NOVEMBER 9th
RUNNING: NOVEMBER 9th – NOVEMBER 19th
SHOWTIMES: WED.-SAT. @8:15P.
ADMISSION: $15 (CASH OR CHECK AT THE DOOR)
RESERVATIONS: (214) 826-6273
EX VOTO: THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF FRIDA KAHLO, written and directed by Matthew Posey, is a story about this amazing woman who takes pain and turns it into passion, and takes her own deterioration and turns it into something powerful and transformative. FRIDA is a surreal dream that takes place in Frida’s bed, while she is delirious and reminisces about her torrid past. Concept puppetry of floating objects, dreamlike landscape and vivid images of her paintings recreated on stage make up her world.
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Looking forward to the show tomorrow night (Friday). I saw the Asylum at the Ochre House a couple of years ago and it was excellent.