Thinking Cap Theatre: Tango Palace

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.

Tango Palace will resonate with anyone who's ever tangoed with a tumultuous lover and lived to tell. Visit Thinking Cap Theatre on Eventbrite.com to register for free public programming that complements this main stage production, including talkbacks with the director and cast, Fornes and Tango scholars, and audience tango instruction.

Sponsored in part by 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, The Rezeppa Family Foundation, and The Warten Foundation.

Funding for Tango Palace supplementary programming was provided through a grant from Florida Humanities with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed by Thinking Cap Theatre do not necessarily represent those of Florida Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.