"Properties of Silence": discovering inner voices through dreams

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How can we make Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz – a 17th Century Mexican writer – contemporary?  Three playwrights – Rose Portillo, Alan Pulner and Theresa Chavez – wrote "Properties of Silence," a multilayered dreamscape of a play, where Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz comes to the present day and meets a married couple living in Arizona.  As a part of Encuentro 2014, the play will be performed on Nov. 7 and 8 at the Los Angeles Theatre Center.

Actors: Rose Portillo, Elizabeth Rainey, and Jonathan Nichols;  Music Composer: Julie Adler.