The playwrightʼs festival that started it all for Latin American playwrights in Canada is going into its sixth year. To date the one of a kind festival has developed the new works of over 20 Latin American writers in Canada. Featuring works by Bruce Gibbons, Jefferson Guzman, Flavia Hevia and Rosa Laborde, the 6th annual De Colores Festival of New Works is fully underway at the Wychwood Theatre, until October 18th.

This yearʼs festival features four new and exciting plays. Paradise Red, presented last night, by Chilean playwright Bruce Gibbons is set in the tone of a dark telenovela and takes on a lesser known side of the Pinochet Fascist Dictatorship: the private lives of the military families who, living in total oblivion in regard to the abuse and violence they created, refuse to face the consequences of their irreparable damage.

The festival continues tonight with two excerpts, and one full play reading on Friday night.

Thursday, October 17, 8pm
(excerpts from both plays will be read)

Solaz by Jefferson Guzman
Directed by Anita La Selva, Dramaturged by Stephen Colella
Featuring: Braulio Elicer, Rosalba Martinni, Sebastian Marziali, Paloma Nuñez, Julio Ospina, Jenifer Alejandra Simmons, Juan Carlos Velis
Rafael is an angel, respectful to his parents Nanda and Alvaro; loving brother to Roger and Flori. When a car accident results in Rafael’s death, his family splinters under the heaviness of grief.

Have You Lost Something? by Flavia Hevia
Directed by Marilo Nuñez, Dramaturged by Erica Kopyto
Featuring: David Chinchilla, Tijiki Morris
Part installation piece, part object, puppet and shadow theatre, the project Have you lost something? is a theatrical show that is a tribute to books.

Friday October 18, 8pm 
Marine Life by Rosa Laborde
Directed by Guillermo Verdecchia, Dramaturged by Stephen Colella
Featuring: Fabrizio Fillipo, Scott McCord, Paloma Nuñez
(full play reading)
A tragic comedy, Marine Life is a delicate piece about complicated intimacies set against a backdrop of apocalyptic proportions.

Each evening will also include a special presentation by the Nueva Voz Youth Ensemble.