10-18 July 2020
CREATIVES
Book by
Terrence McNally based on the novel by Manuel Puig
Music by
John Kander
Lyrics by
Fred Ebb
Directed by
Robert Readman
CAST
To be announced
KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
@41monkgate, York
Kander and Ebb's Kiss of the Spider Woman takes a harrowing tale of persecution and turns it into a dazzling musical that combines gritty realities with liberating fantasies.
Molina is a gay window dresser serving an eight-year sentence in a Latin American prison after being accused of corrupting a minor. He survives by living in a fantasy world of movies, most of them starring his idol Aurora.
Valentin, a tough Marxist revolutionary, is brought into the prison, where he's beaten, tortured and thrown into Molina's cell.
Molina shares his fantasies about Aurora – originated on Broadway by Chita Rivera – with Valentin.
One of her roles is a Spider Woman who kills with a kiss.