TANGO PALACE by María Irene Fornés at THE ORLANDO INTERNATIONAL FRINGE THEATRE FESTIVAL

Directed by Nicole Stodard

PERFORMANCE DATES AT THE ORLANDO INTERNATIONAL FRINGE THEATRE FESTIVAL
Thursday, May 16, 2024 | 7:55pm
Tuesday May 21, 2024 | 9:05pm
Saturday, May 25, 2024 | 5:45pm
Sunday, May 26, 2024 | 10:30pm

The age-old saying goes that 'all is fair in love and war,’ and that could not be truer in this dark, funny, and whimsical examination of perilous passion by the late, great master playwright Maria Irene Fornes (1930-2018), author of more than 40 plays. First staged in 1963 in San Francisco by the esteemed director Herbert Blau, the play was so successful that it was quickly anthologized in Arthur Ballet’s Playwrights for Tomorrow. This rarely staged gem brims with traces of Samuel Beckett's absurdism, Oscar Wilde's wit, and Off-Off-Broadway's camp style.

“Daring, Triumphant”
Aaron Kraus, Miami ArtZine
“A colorful, quirky, and searing production”
Mindy Leaf, South Florida Theater Magazine

Tango Palace is sponsored in part by Robin Bodiford, Annette Gardner, Sue Wilder, Jacquelyn Scott, Sue Kadenbach, the State of Florida through the Division of Arts and Culture and the National Endowment for the Arts, a grant from The Our Fund Foundation, an LGBTQ community foundation, Broward County Cultural Division, The Rezeppa Family Foundation and The Warten Foundation.