News: IATI Theater Presents "Fifty Fun Facts Sobre Olivia [mi madre]"
What happens when the person you love most needs you, but the words you need to save them don’t fully belong to you? IATI Theater, a New York-based, not-for-profit performing arts organization established in 1968 and dedicated to performing and promoting contemporary Latino heritage, presents Nora Coss’s Fifty fun facts sobre Olivia [mi madre] , a moving bilingual memory play exploring caregiving, language, cultural identity, and the complicated ways we come to understand the people we love. In Fifty fun facts sobre Olivia [mi madre] , fourteen-year-old Emilio is more comfortable speaking English than Spanish, while his mother, Olivia, wants him to remain connected to his Mexican roots through language. When Olivia becomes seriously ill and Emilio must help care for her in Mexico, that difference takes on new urgency. Suddenly, he must navigate doctors, paperwork, and caregiving in a language he does not fully command. In the process, mother and son begin finding new ways to unders...