Odalys Nanin’s Skin of Honey Focuses on The Forbidden Lesbian Love in Castro’s Cuba
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Today, Friday, June 17, Arts in Review hosts playwright/actress Odalys Nanin and actress Katarina Radivojevic, discussing Nanin’s play, Skin of Honey, at Macha Theatre/Films in West Hollywood, through June 25, in conjunction with Hollywood Fringe Fest. As a musical interlude, Arts in review introduces Latin jazz/pop singer Julia Vari.
Macha Theatre Company revives its 2007 production of Skin of Honey, a forbidden lesbian love story set in the political upheaval of Castro’s Cuba where improper conduct is a crime punished with imprisonment or with your own life. In 1961, two teenagers are torn apart by the Bay of Pigs invasion into Cuba only to be reunited again after twenty years of separation. Skin of Honey features Odalys Nanin, Julia Vari, Katarina Radivojevic, Omnia Bixler, Alexandra Evankovich, Andres Mejia Vallejo, Bayardo de Murguia, Eddy G. Munoz, Joseph Arzuaga and Dennis Delsing.
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