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Authors Todd Olson, Karen Garcia, and Jeremy Childs describe Casa Blue by saying: “Our goal with Casa Blue was to tell Frida’s story in a ‘very Frida way.’ In a way that embraced Frida as a collage of myriad contradictions. So to us, the ‘very Frida way’ of dramatizing her story meant that a range of aesthetic filters through which we told her story was not only desirable, but essential.

“We employed the things we found in her paintings, photographs, and life: a puppet theatre over her bed, masks, old movies, raucous affairs, etc. Dramaturgically, a mosaic (a picture made of broken things) seemed more of a right model than a linear story beholden to traditional Aristotelian rules. This was the best way, in our estimation, that we could address and dramatize the many facets of such a complex subject.

“The result was an evening made of 33 small plays which played out the way one’s life plays out at the moment of death - as if seeing the life flash before one’s eyes. Like artful puzzle pieces, Case Blue unfolds – with 4 actresses playing Frida – slowing morphing from young to old, health to sickness, prose to poetry, sexual power to enfeebled solitude, culminating in a dizzying farewell.”

Sponsored by the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Boot and Buskin, Major Arcana, and the Office fo the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs.

This event is part of the College's Diversity Central Series.