2024 LOGAN FESTIVAL OF SOLO PERFORMANCE
July 18-28, 2024
The Logan Festival of Solo Performance
Fly Me to the Sun written and performed by Brian Quijada
Directed by Raymond O. Caldwell
Following a tragedy in El Salvador, Abuela Julia moves in with her family in a Chicago suburb. Her grandson, BQ, learns about America through his grandmother’s eyes while also teaching her to enjoy simple pleasures. Told in the style of a late-night talk show with Julia as a special guest (in the form of a puppet), Quijada weaves a beautiful story about the moments that move us and what calls us home.
July 18-28, 2024
The Logan Festival of Solo Performance
Too Fat for China written and performed by Phoebe Potts
The story follows Phoebe Potts, a self-described comic storyteller and professional Jew, as she tries, fails and eventually succeeds to adopt a baby. After a US adoption goes horribly wrong, Potts finds herself surprised, disgusted and ultimately resigned to the role she plays as a middle-class white lady in the business of adopting babies in the US and internationally. Potts’ tragi-comic journey is about looking for more— more love, more life and more family and will do anything to get it, including having her morals and values fold in on themselves.
Community Conversations
7-28: Following the 2pm performance
July 18-28, 2024
The Logan Festival of Solo Performance
GUAC
Written and Performed by Manuel Oliver
Co-Written by James Clements
Directed by Michael Cotey
What do you do when you lose a son? Take it from Manuel Oliver, the father of Parkland shooting victim Joaquin Oliver, you have to do what you do best. Fearless, funny, and pulling zero punches, GUAC is a one-man tour-de-force theatrical experience about a father turned activist, his undying love for his son, and the story of an immigrant family in search of the American Dream only instead to be confronted by a uniquely American Nightmare.
Community Conversations
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GUAC, follow the button above.
Thursday, July 25 - following the 7:30pm performance
With special guest panelists Kandis Catalan (Community Engagement Specialist, Office of Gun Violence Prevention) and Josh Horwitz (co-director of the John Hopkins Center for Gun Violence and Professor of the Practice in Gun Violence Prevention and Advocacy)
Saturday, July 27 - following the 2pm performance
With special guest panelist Asieh Kayari, Local Lead for Tysons Moms Demand Action
Sunday, July 28 - following the 5pm performance