TORERA
- Sep 20 - Oct 19 2025, 7:00pm
- Long Wharf Theatre @ WP Theater
Event description
Written by Monet Hurst-Mendoza
Directed and choreographed by Tatiana Pandiani
Co-Production with WP Theater, The Sol Project, and Latinx Playwrights Circle
In Yucatán, Mexico, where bullfighting is a tradition dominated by men, Elena María Ramírez defiantly dreams of becoming a torera. Raised alongside Tanok Cárdenas, the son of a celebrated matador, Elena grows up just outside the world she longs to enter. When her talent in the bullring becomes impossible to ignore, she begins training in secret, stepping into a journey of ambition, identity, and resistance. As Elena’s pursuit challenges the patriarchal order around her, both families must confront the roles they’ve inherited and the forces of class, gender, and desire that bind them. With striking visual poetry, Torera explores who gets to step into the ring — and what must be risked to get there.
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Torera explores bullfighting as a sport and culture in this coming-of-age story set in Mexico. It is a controversial practice that we neither condemn nor condone. The intent of this production is not to romanticize the sport, which is currently banned in Mexico City and most of the Mexican provinces, but to respect the spirit around it.
This production contains some instances of strong language/profanity.