References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot

by José Rivera

part of

Great Scenes from American Kitchen Sink Theatre

presented by Illinois Theatre

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Colwell Playhouse

April 14-18, 2021

on-demand viewing April 30-May 2, 2021

 
 

Director

Assistant director

Scenic Designer

Costume Designer

Lighting Designer

Sound Designer

Associate Sound Designer

Media Designer

director of photography

intimacy directors

Properties master

hair and makeup coordinator

Stage Manager

Dramaturg

Nisi Sturgis

Tonatiu Ruiz-Escobedo

Blaine Fuson

Hannah Haverkamp

Gillian Frame

Dakota Erickson

Walter Koonce

M Ospina-López

Leojae Payton

zev steinrock, Anastasia Kasimos

Timothy Swift

Necole Bluhm

Greg Mueller

Mariana Seda

 
 

Cast

Benito

Gabriela

u/s Benito

u/s Gabriela

Daniel Alexander Rivera

Amy Toruno

fabian alejandro Guerrero

Bree Kazinski

photos: Darrell Hoemann


 

Director’s Notes

In the farther reaches and later depths of isolation—as the tethers to home, to love, and to self fray—the line between sleeping and waking shudders like heat on dry earth.

"I’m very fascinated with the idea of home and what home is. Puerto Rico, where I was born, is in the back of my mind, and a lot of my characters are wanderers without a place to call home."

- José Rivera

Gabriella and Benito are such wanderers, not knowing if home is a place, a person, or a dream. Belonging to each other, but not knowing how.