CIRCA presents Mr. & Mrs. LaQuesta Go Dancing!

Chicago, IL - For its 17th Theater Season, Pintig CIRCA opens the New Year with Noel Alumit’s Mr. & Mrs. LaQuesta Go Dancing, a one-act play about love and healing. Jay and Lori La Questa, a middle-aged Filipino couple, are having their annual dance party. Mixed with food and their usual rhythmic gait through tango and cha cha, they gather friends as they always have to celebrate life and honor their only son, Boyett. To the outside world, the dance party may seem celebratory and candid but to their inner selves, it is a night of healing, reconciliation and catharsis from an experience that altered their lives forever. And this they would do in a way they know best – through dancing. As they dance the night away, they find themselves retelling stories about their son, both bitter and sweet, finding new meaning from a past that continues to haunt them in their search for peace and acceptance.

Written by Noel Alumit, an LA-based an award-winning playwright and novelist famous for his coming-of-age novel Letters to Montgomery Clift, the play intimates hidden emotions about gender and sexuality, not your typical dinner table talk especially in Filipino American households. Directed by Louie Sison, a long time Pintig performer and scenic designer, the play goes on stage on February 5-8, 12-15, 19-21, 26-March 1, Thursdays and Saturdays at 8pm (no shows on Fridays) and Sundays at 2pm at the James Downing Theatre, United Methodist Church of Edison Park on 6740 N Oliphant, Chicago, IL. For tickets, call (312) 353-0138 or email us at circatheater@yahoo.com. Admission is $15 for adults and $10 for students and seniors.

Supported in part by City Arts 1 grant from Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Crossroads Fund, Nuveen Investments and Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.