{"id":1573,"date":"2020-01-09T21:01:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T21:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2020-01-09T21:01:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T21:01:24","slug":"frida-stroke-of-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/?p=1573","title":{"rendered":"Frida: Stroke of Passion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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By Michel Khordoc<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story that peels the cover up and reveals what or who killed Frida Kahlo, Mexico\u2019s most controversial artist, and one of the world\u2019s most famous painters. Award-winning playwright Odalys Nanin brings back by popular demand the critically acclaimed production of Frida: Stroke Of Passion. The renowned playwright and award-winning director Odalys Nanin returns to the stage this February 2020 starring again as controversial Mexican artist and painter Frida Kahlo in the EDDON Award-winning play for Best Performance & Production. The original play with features live music and iconic songs: Paloma Negra, La Llorona, Piensa en mi, \u00a0Estas Son Las Mananitas, Maria Bonita and a Tango Song Una Cabeza. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back by popular\ndemand and with a grant from LA County Arts, DAC and CAC,Frida: Stroke of Passion opens in\nFebruary 7, 2020 at Casa 0101 Theater in Boyle Heights for six shows during the\nmonth of love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The play explores\nKahlo\u2019s mental, emotional and physical condition during the last week of\nher life – exposing her love affair with famous Mexican singer Chavela Vargas,\nJosephine Baker, Trotsky, a Cuban spy and her complex passionate love for\nDiego. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frida Kahlo was born\nJuly 6, 1907 and died July 13, 1954. Her death certificate alleges cause of\ndeath as “pulmonary embolism” but no autopsy was allowed and she was\nimmediately cremated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While\nmany movies, television dramas and stage productions have been made on Kahlo,\nnone zoomed in on the last week of the woman\u2019s life. Her death has been an\nopen-ended and unanswered question mark. In fact many believe that there was a\ncover up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After\nconsiderable research, Nanin masterfully recaptures the days leading up to\nKahlo\u2019s death, and offers an answer to what has long been rumored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 ” The\nReason I wrote the play was because I wanted to show a part of Frida that no\none knows about – her mental, emotional and physical state of mind the week\nbefore she dies. I explored her pain, fears, and lovers-her bisexuality, her\nfervor for Diego and her paintings. But most of all I explored and reveal the\ncover up behind her death \u201c comments Odalys Nanin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A MUST-SEE\nperformance that sheds light on the incredible life of one of the biggest\nLatina icon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kahlo lived in a\nchauvinistic male dominated society but learned how to navigate it by not\nfollowing the norms of the times. Proud of her LatinX root, she not only wore\nit, she painted it. She was a crippled who knew how to conceal her\nimperfections under her Oaxaca outfits and crown braided hair.                                                                 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She had bushy\neyebrows and even a visible mustache, which instead of hiding, she accentuated.\nShe smoke cigars and drank tequila not a lady like style for her time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Kahlo created\nher own image by defying fashion and protocol and as a result became a World\nLegend for it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frida: Stroke of\nPassion is a magical musical journey into the real Frida that no one\nknew! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Serving the LA\nTheater community for decades, Nanin is not only one of the most influential\nfaces of Los Angeles Arts & Theater community but also one of the most\nsingular voices in LGBTQ theater. Nanin\u2019s work is a very important\ncontribution to both the LGBTQ+ and LatinX communities, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A go- getter, who has\nbeen the author of her own destiny since the beginning\u2013 well before LGBTQ+\nstories and characters were applauded by the mainstream, Nanin has made it her\nmission to tell authentic Lesbian stories for the female gaze with a\nfeminist point of view. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tickets available\nat: <\/strong>http:\/\/bit.ly\/SupportMacha2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

F By Michel Khordoc The story that peels the cover up and reveals what or who killed Frida Kahlo, Mexico\u2019s most controversial artist, and one of the world\u2019s most famous painters. Award-winning playwright Odalys Nanin brings back by popular demand the critically acclaimed production of Frida: Stroke Of Passion. The renowned playwright and award-winning director Odalys Nanin returns to the stage this February 2020 starring again as controversial Mexican artist and painter Frida Kahlo in the EDDON Award-winning play for Best Performance & Production. The original play with features live music and iconic songs: Paloma Negra, La Llorona, Piensa en mi, \u00a0Estas Son Las Mananitas, Maria Bonita and a Tango Song Una Cabeza. Back by popular demand and with a grant from LA County Arts, DAC and CAC,Frida: Stroke of Passion opens in February 7, 2020 at Casa 0101 Theater in Boyle Heights for six shows during the month of love. The play explores Kahlo\u2019s mental, emotional and physical condition during the last week of her life – exposing her love affair with famous Mexican singer Chavela Vargas, Josephine Baker, Trotsky, a Cuban spy and her complex passionate love for Diego.  Frida Kahlo was born July 6, 1907 and died July 13, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2212,1559,2213],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1575,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions\/1575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}