Abigail Padgett

Howe, Pimentel, Iglesias. Photo courtesy The Huntington.

Don’t Eat the Mangos

Abigail Padgett 8 April

4 minutes

Don’t Eat the Mangos is a dark, hilarious Puerto Rican take on an eerily familiar story. You know, the story about three sisters. They’re stars in Orion’s Belt, characters in the […]

Theater

Altman, Kellogg. Photo by Nile Hawker.

Triumph of Love is a Delight: An 18th Century French comedy, adapted to the 21st, comically highlights an eternal contradiction in human nature.

Abigail Padgett 19 March

5 minutes

The play by Pierre de Marivaux was first performed in Paris in 1732, ran for six performances and folded. Perhaps playgoers were outraged at the character, Léonide, a young woman calculatedly […]