The Other America - A New Play

Written by Pedro Eiras, inspired by Nobel Prize Winner Dario Fo's Johan Padan and The Discovery of the Americas

May 1 at 2 p.m, at the Curtain Theater, located in the Randolph W. Bromery Center for the Arts

The Other America is a staged reading inspired by Nobel Prize Winner Dario Fo’s Johan Padan and The Discovery of the Americas, but instead of telling the story of a stowaway in the 17th century who ends up in a whole different continent, it tells the story of João da Silva, a young man who leaves Brazil to start a new life in the United States of America in the year 2025.

In his epic, difficult and often-times comedic journey, João encounters the many extraordinary challenges that all immigrants face as they cross the border towards the land of opportunity, freedom, and bravery… only to discover that there is another America, one in which opportunity is only for a very few, freedom often unattainable, and bravery an act of daily survival. 

Part of the Theater Deparment Fringe Festival. Admission free, reservation not required but recommended.