photography by Roya DelSol (Julie Phan) and Fran Chudnoff (Augusto Bitter), treatment by Fran Chudnoff
Reina
Pencil Kit Productions + Buddies in Bad Times
7:00 PM, May 21-31, 2025
Reina envisions the many lives of the anonymous woman depicted on a bag of Harina P.A.N. corn flour. It invokes and celebrates personal femininity through a collection of poems, sculptures, and choreographies in conversation with music by Y Josephine.
Genrefuck. Two movement-driven solo pieces. Two audacious artists. Intimate works converse and collide in a rolling run of double-bills. Julie Phan’s world premiere Never Walk Alone uses pole dance to navigate alienation, projection and inertia within different relational spheres. This is art on the edge of gender and genre.
Reina is co-directed and produced by Claren Grosz (Artistic Director, Pencil Kit Productions) and performed by Jaime Lujan. Music by Y Josephine, Sound Design by Miquelon Rodriguez, and Lighting Design by Shawn Henry.
RADIO PLAY version now available through Radio Aluna Theatre’s Studio Series, in ENGLISH and ESPAÑOL.
Created in-residence at Canadian Stage, Aluna Theatre, and Buddies in Bad Times. Development and production would not be possible without the support of Theatre Passe Muraille, hub14, b current performing arts, the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts.
“Dulce manjar, divino sustento, ¿que haces afuera? ¡vamos pa’ dentro!”
