Cristina García returns to Central Works to adapt another one of her lush, sensual novels. The Lady Matador’s Hotel follows the denizens of a luxurious hotel in the capital of an unnamed Central American country in the midst of political turmoil. There is the matadora in town for a bullfight. There is an ex-guerrilla now working as a waitress in the hotel. And there is a colonel who committed atrocities in the country’s long civil war. Each day, the pull of revenge and desire draws them closer and closer together.
“Has the energy of an obsessive tango. Or, indeed, a bullfight.”—NY Times
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Press:
“if political suspicion curdles everywhere in…The Lady Matador’s Hotel, so does desire. The push and pull of those two feelings gives the script, now in a Central Works world premiere, a streak of mystery”
— SF Chronicle Datebook Pick
“Graves is clearly in command…we’re four feet from the actor’s who…thrust Garcia’s evocative prose and exhilarating characters into our laps.”
— East Bay Express
“I was thoroughly transported by Cristina Garcia’s stage adaptation of her own novel, “The Lady Matador’s Hotel.” It’s all highly theatrical: Garcia’s lyrical writing, the complex and mysterious story and the vibrant characters.”
— J. Schiffman of the SF Examiner
“The Lady Matador’s Hotel is a hit for Central Works!”
— The Berkeleyside