Valor, Agravio y Mujer (The Courage to Right a Woman's Wrongs)
by Ana Caro Mallén de Soto
Directed by Tatyana Marie Carlo
Adapted by Julissa Contreras
Presented in association with Expand the Canon
Booking and details
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Dates Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 8pm
Venue Folger Theatre
Tickets $20 (or $150 for an All-Access Pass)
This event is ASL Interpreted.
Please note: Children under the age of 4 are not permitted.
This play is a celebration of women’s agency, written by Shakespeare’s Spanish contemporary Ana Caro Mallén de Soto (1590-1646).
Following a scorned heroine determined to carry out a revenge tragedy-turned-comedy, the play includes hallmarks familiar to Shakespeare’s writing, including cross-dressing, love triangles, swordplay, and soaring verse. Doña Leonora dresses like a man and crosses Europe to get revenge on her ungrateful ex who left her unmarriageable. Along the way, she manipulates others in her sphere causing confusion and antics – and ends up with a triumph that she deems better than any murder.
Post-show conversation
Join us for a post-show conversation moderated by Robert Ramirez. The panel features Tatyana-Marie Carlo, Emily Lyon, and Julissa Contreras.
How to attend the festival
Individual events – $20
Reading Room Festival All-Access Pass – $150
Access to all staged readings, panel discussions, workshops, and community celebrations included in the Festival.
Students – Free admission to readings and conversations
Admitted free one-half hour before event start time, with a valid ID.
About Expand the Canon
Expand the Canon researches and celebrates classic plays by historic women and gender-expansive writers—and is a call to action to produce them. They’ve partnered with and inspired more than 20 companies across the country to teach and perform these works. Find all 52 curated plays (spanning 1600-1990, 16 countries, and 11 languages) at expandthecanon.com.
Who’s Who
Tatyana-Marie Carlo
Tatyana-Marie Carlo (ella/she) (Director). Folger Theatre: debut. Regional: Philadelphia Theatre Company: La Egoísta; Hartford Stage: Pride and Prejudice; American Stage: La Gringa; Children’s Theatre Company: Carmela Full of Wishes; Dorset Theatre Festival: Native Gardens; WAM Theatre: Far, Far Better Things; Trinity Repertory Company: A Christmas Carol, La Broa’ (Broad Street), The Inferior Sex, Sueño, Fade, References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot, She Kills Monsters, Comedia de las Equivocaciones/Comedy of Errors, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot; Everyman Theatre: Behold, A Negress; Dallas Theatre Center: A Little Less Lonely. Off-Broadway: INTAR Theatre: Vámonos. Proud member of SDC. tatyanamariecarlo.com @tatyanamariec
Julissa Contreras
Julissa Contreras (Dramaturg) Folger Theatre: debut. Off-Broadway: Pregones/PRRT: SOLfest; Rattlestick Theater: MTA Radio Play, Theater Jam; Atlantic Theater Company: African Caribbean Mixfest; INTAR Theatre: Vámonos (HOLA Award), MicroTEATRO Festival, #1OMPF, Maria Irene Fornes Festival; Television: Everything’s Gonna Be All White, White Noize. www.julissacontreras.com @jewleesah
Emily Lyon
Emily Lyon is a director, dramaturg, and artistic director that carves out the humor and authenticity in new and classic texts. She co-created, leads, and curates Expand the Canon––a call to action to include a wide range of historic women and gender-expansive writers in the canon of classics––as Artistic Director. As a freelance director, Lyon has directed nine world premieres, including Diana Ly’s Sex and the Abbey (The Brick), and has worked with the Folger Theatre, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Geva Theatre, the Old Globe, LaMaMa, Yale Rep, the Royal Shakespeare Company, University of Michigan, and others. As a dramaturg, she’s worked with writers on shaping over 25 new plays, including the world premiere of Kate Hamill’s Sense & Sensibility, and editing classical texts, including the Expand the Canon plays and The Tempest for Shakespeare in the Park. Find out more at EmilyALyon.com, and ExpandTheCanon.com.
Robert Ramirez
Robert Ramirez is thrilled to be back in the woods at APT! He has worked as an actor, director, voice artist, and voice and speech coach at theaters across the country including the Guthrie Theater, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Playhouse, Hartford Stage, the Alley Theater, The NY Public Theater, American Players Theatre, as well as numerous Shakespeare festivals in every region. He has been a member of the Recorded Books repertory company in New York City for over 20 years and is a proud member of Actors Equity Association and the National Theatre Conference. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Los Angeles Theatre Academy at Los Angeles City College and earned his MFA at the University of Delaware’s Professional Theatre Training Program. Robert is currently the Head of the School of Drama at Carnegie Mellon University.