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Houston's Main Street Theater is excited to bring The Book of Magdalene by Caridad Svich to you virtually. This play has never been done before, anywhere. This is a fully staged and produced presentation of the play, filmed at their Rice Village theater (there'll be some sneak peeks into their set and costume designs soon!). Then they'll stream it digitally so you can watch from the comfort and safely of your own home.

The production will be available for viewing online any time February 11 - 21. Tickets are available now (viewing codes will be sent starting February 8). Purchase Tickets

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In the edge-lands, in the weird times (after a worldwide catastrophic event), it's nighttime until it's not. These nights, Magdalene misses Ru and who they could have been together. Magdalene cares for Elder. Magdalene visits the local church to look at the sky. Magdalene works the call lines of the lonely and encounters Suit. Call this a quest. Call this a life waiting to be born again, haunted by a past when another Magdalene lived and was misunderstood. The Book of Magdalene is contemporary drama of sharp encounters, winding faith, tough love and tenderness suffused with grace and magic. A story about finding the courage to move on when life feels as if it is stuck in place.

Related Article: Houstons Main Street Theatre Announces 2021 and 2022 Season

About the Playwright

Main Street Theater produced the world premiere of English-language adaptation of Caridad Svich's The House of the Spirits, adapted from the novel by Isabel Allende, in 2009. We are honored to produce her new work, The Book of Magdalene. 

Related Article: Alley Theatre of Houstons FREE 2021 Digital Season

Caridad Svich is a playwright, screenwriter, translator, editor, lyricist, essayist, educator and freelance arts journalist. Her first independent feature film (as co-screenwriter) Fugitive Dreams, based on her play, premiered at the 2020 Fantasia Film Festival, 2020 Austin Film Festival and the 2020 Tallinn Black Nights Festival. Three of her plays were on the 2020 Kilroys List. She has received the 2012 OBIE for Lifetime Achievement, the 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize for The House of the Spirits, based on Isabel Allende’s novel, and NNPN rolling world premieres for RED BIKE and Guapa. She has also been a Harvard/Radcliffe Institute Fellow, Tanne Foundation Fellow, NEA and Pew Fellow, and Visiting Research Fellow at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Read Ms. Svich's full bio here.

About the Production

Director: Amelia Rico. The cast: Mariam Albishah, Andrea Boronell, Pablo Bracho, Maria Schenck, and Jennifer Wang.

Set design by Afsaneh Aayani. Costume design by Victoria Nicolette Gist. Lighting design by Grey Starbird. Sound design by Janel Badrina. Stage management by Megan Brooks.