LA CASA DE LOS ESPIRITUS

La Casa de los Espiritus is Caridad Svich’s deeply entertaining, heart-breaking and surprising adaption of Isabelle Allende’s novel. The production, originally performed at Repertorio Espanol directed by long-time Koch-collaborator Jose Zayas, has toured throughout Chile and played sold-out houses in Santiago, Chile, Washington, DC, and San Jose, Costa Rica. It is appropriate that a play spanning generations and parsing interpretations of morality, unique personality and love should have so many incarnations; each has been an opportunity to reexamine the relationship of projection to actors as a story-telling medium with a definitive point of view.

The GALA Theatre production was featured in the 2013 May/June issue of American Theatre Magazine.

/ Production History

Teatro Espressivo, San José, Costa Rica
February - May, 2014

GALA Theatre, Washington DC
February, 2013

Teatro Mori Parque Arauco, Santiago, Chile
May, 2010

Repertorio Espanol, New York City
March, 2009

/ Creative Team

director
Jose Zayas
playwright
Caridad Svich
scenic designer
Elizabeth Jenkins McFadden (GALA Theatre, Washington DC)
Robert Federico (Repertorio Espanol)
costume designer
Ivania Stack (GALA Theatre, Washington DC)
Robert Federico (Repertorio Espanol)
lighting designer
Joseph Walls (GALA Theatre, Washington DC)
Robert Federico (Repertorio Espanol)
sound designer
Jane Shaw (GALA Theatre, Washington DC; Espressivo Theatre, San Jose, Costa Rica)
David Lawson (Repertorio Espanol)

/ Projection Team

designer
Alex Basco Koch
illustrator (architectural drawings)
Claire Karoff
mobile and miniature Artist
Sven Henry Nelson
illustrator (gouache drawings)
Raoul Anchondo
calligrapher
Jocelyn O'Shea