Lori Felipe-Barkin
Brooklyn, NY

Plays

by Lori Felipe-Barkin

In Florida the water is rising, the climate is changing, and Flor and her children are looking to get theirs before it all goes to shit. Inspired by Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, and intended to be performed in slow rising water, Flor Underwater is a not-too-distant-future re-imagining of America’s loopiest state in crisis as its rednecks, Cubans, Miccosukee Indians, and Mar O Lagans struggle to claim a piece of the state they call home…or what’s left of it. Flor Underwater is a nightmare, yes, but it is above anything else a love song to Florida herself.

 

Cast:
FLOR (a.k.a MAMA) - female, middle aged, Latinx CHUCHI - female, teenager, Latinx LECHE - female, child, light-skinned Latinx, twin to CAFÉ CAFÉ - male, child, dark-skinned Latinx, twin to LECHE HIGHWAYMAN - male, middle aged, White MONTROSE - male, senior age, White HENNY- male, late teens to twenties CLUCK - male, late teens to twenties GLORIA - female, middle-aged, Latinx DALLAS - male, middle-aged, Miccosukee