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Bruja at the Magic Theatre: A Contemporary, Bewitching Take on the Plight of Immigrants

Lily Janiak Jun 12, 2012 9:30 AM
Jennifer Reiley
Sabina Zuniga Varela sees into the beyond as the title character of the Magic Theatre's production.

Luis Alfaro and Loretta Greco have done it again.

The playwright-director collaboration last triumphed at the Magic Theatre in 2010 with Oedipus el Rey, a taut, Will Glickman Award-winning drama that reimagined the Oedipus myth in a contemporary Hispanic community.

Now the pair have reunited for Bruja, which reenvisions Euripides's Medea, also in contemporary Hispanic environs, and the result is every bit as engrossing and poignant as Alfaro's last piece.