Yemaya's Belly
After a natural disaster strikes a rural Cuban town, a young boy is haunted by the complexity of his ancestry and loss and leaves it all behind for an America full of material promise.
Cast Requirements
3 men
2 women
Honors
Recipient: Clauder Prize; Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting; Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Latina Playwriting Award.
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service
Press
“The writing continually blooms with poetic turns and illustrative stories… Hudes’s ties-that-bind, circle-of-life ruminations bear beautiful fruit.”
–The Washington Post
Production and Development History
Premiere: Portland Stage Company (2005).