RECENT ALIEN ABDUCTIONS

About the Show

RECENT ALIEN ABDUCTIONS by Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas

Directed by Jaime Robledo 

West Coast Premiere

*OPENING NIGHT PARTY NOVEMBER 1ST AT 6P!!!*

Part family drama, part examination of personal and cultural alienation, Recent Alien Abductions follows Álvaro, a queer Puerto Rican artist who believes he has unraveled a real-life conspiracy embedded in an early episode of The X-Files. Years later, a close friend arrives at Álvaro’s family home hoping to get permission to publish his plays. What she uncovers while there means Álvaro might have been right all along.

Sacred Fools is thrilled to present the West Coast premiere of Recent Alien Abductions, The 2017 Humana Festival of New American Plays hit was commissioned by Playwrights Horizon and written by New York-based playwright Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas.

Director, Jaime Robledo says: “To be honest, what initially drew me to the Recent Alien Abductions was the mere mention of The X-Files. As a fan of the show, I was intrigued with how a play could weave a 20 year old piece of genre television into something new and exciting. I began reading and immediately was sucked into the mind of this troubled artist with a family much like my own from a part of Puerto Rico my family comes from. Once I started connecting the dots between myself and Álvaro, his upbringing and mine, the world he created for himself and seemed much less alien to me. And because of that, I knew I had to tell this story, this family’s story,Álvaro’s story, my story.”