"THE LABYRINTH OF THE BUTTERFLIES": NEW NAME FOR THEATER SHOW IN 2008

”The Labyrinth of the Butterflies” is the new name of the theater show based on the book Women:Metamorphosis of the Butterfly Effect by María Suárez Toro.

The show is comprised of music, theater, poetry, dance, ritual, wisdom, stories, testimonies and multimedia, featuring women from Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States. They lived in various eras of world history and in their life endeavors in a variety of disciplines, made contributions that have hardly been acknowledged, yet these ideas represent significant perspectives to address today’s urgent global problems.

The show will be performed for audiences in Latin America and the Caribbean and also worldwide through a process of “internationalization” that will make use of multimedia to reach both Spanish and non-Spanish speaking audiences while keeping the Latin American and Caribbean identity of the show.

The world premiere of "The Labyrinth of the Butterflies" will take place at the end of October in San José, Heredia and Alajuela in Costa Rica.

Some of the characters in the show include:

• “Lucy”, one of the oldest skeletal remains found, who narrates the shift from matrilineal to patriarchal societies. She claims that there is a lost paradigm in history that exists in all of us, and stresses the urgency for humanity to reconnect to that Vital Re-emerging Paradigm.
  
  
• Mileva Maric, mathematician, physicist and Einstein’s first wife, who contributed to his Nobel prizewinning work, but was never recognized.
  
  
• Molly, a fictional character and microchip who tells us what life is like for a homemaker who makes choices.
  
  
• Mayan Guatemalans who will weave the traditional Latin Americans into the show and weave in the characters from other regions to showcase a different construction of globalization. Rather than homogenizing cultures and eliminating some identities, it weaves together a variety of cultural identities.