FAUNA
By Romina Paula - Translated by April Sweeney and Brenda Werth
Directed by April Sweeney
A *Necessary Digression collaboration with Torn Page and the Martin E . Segal Theater Center September 16-October 1, 2022
ABOUT THE PLAY​
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“But as you left, the stage cracked
To reveal a flash of the real, a fissure
Through which you departed: green of real green,
Real sunshine, real forest.”-Rilke
​FAUNA brings together four characters involved in the making of a film, a film that will never be made: a fictionalized biography based on a legendary figure who in her lifetime dressed like a man, translated Rilke, and rode her horse with abandon through the campo until she was in her nineties. FAUNA contemplates how to tell the story of a life, questions what is true and real, and asks us to decipher where fiction and the real co-exist.