Prima’s Guide to Funerals featured on Colorado Public Radio
To listen, check out https://www.cpr.org/2024/07/11/colorado-arts-spotlight-things-to-know-and-do-around-the-state-july-12-14/
World Premiere at Creede Repertory Theatre
The world premiere of “Prima’s Guide to Funerals,” a new comedy by Leonard Madrid, opens this weekend at Creede Repertory Theater. The play was commissioned as part of the theater’s Headwaters New Play Program, which seeks to bring new and timely work to the stage.
Kate Berry, the theater’s interim artistic director, said the play was written specifically for the Creede community in the San Luis Valley, an area with a large Hispanic population.
“Leonard agreed to write a play, particularly a comedy that speaks to and about the Hispanic and Latinx community,” said Berry. “It’ll have a special significance for folks in… the San Luis Valley.”
The play is described as “A comedy in one funeral” and is both funny and heartfelt.
“It’s more of a dramedy,” said Berry. She likens this play to another of Madrid’s works, “Cebollas!”, which had its premiere at the Denver Center Theater Company earlier this year. “It’s very funny and it also deals with grief and loss.” Berry hopes audiences will agree with her assessment that it is “probably the funniest play about a funeral [they’ve] seen.”
“Prima’s Guide to Funerals” runs through Sept. 14 at Creede Repertory Theater.