pelú theatre

Pedro, a cockroach from the low-income housing projects in NYC, is about to commit suicide. He has been married seven times, and each of his wives has been killed! He lost his best friend, he lost his job… he has nothing and he hates the world! This is his story, a story of a poor Latino that went from human to a suicidal cockroach...

This debut production of Pelú Theatre presents a circus theatre spectacle exploring the themes of exile and the birth of a new subculture in America, putting a comic twist to the existential dilemma of being an immigrant in the U.S. The show is based on the poem A Suicide Note from a Cockroach in a low-income housing project written by Nuyorican poet Pedro Pietri. In it, the company uses circus as its vocabulary for telling stories: aerialists, tumblers, acrobats, musicians and, of course, clowns form an ensemble of cockroaches trying to live a decent life -- but with one antagonist, a human!

This show is inspired by the poem A Suicide Note from a Cockroach in a low income housing project by Pedro Pietri and comes to you in part thanks to the Regional Arts and Culture Council.

available for touring!

“I like it!”

-the hooker

for more info please contact CarlosAlexis: carlosalexis@pelutheatre.com

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Charivari!

an adventurous circus about the journey of immigration...

Miguel is dead!

Our immigrant hero wakes up in the midst of his own funeral, surrounded by a procession of all those who were significant in is life. He doesn’t remember what happened, much less how he died, if he did indeed...

The only thing he has engraved in his mind is that vivid memory of how he risked everything for the desire of a better future, that Sueño Americano.

Was it worth it?

This production of Pelú Theatre presents a circus theatre spectacle that re-lives the life-changing journey of immigration, an odyssey for the American Dream. But of course, with a comic twist to this existential dilemma of having to leave everything for the chance of a better life.

The show is based on real-life stories from those who came through the water and from those who followed the desert route.

This is Pelú’s most movement oriented production to date.In it, the company uses elements of the of nouveau cirque(a more theatrical circus) as its vocabulary for telling stories: aerialists, tumblers, acrobats, musicians and, of course, clowns form an ensemble of immigrants trying to weather the storm that is this journey.