Avant Bard | theatre on the edge
Our 36th season launches in October 2025 with the 10th annual Scripts in Play festival—a free, gallery-based series of readings that weave contemporary playwrights into dialogue with classic themes. In spring 2026, Two Gentlemen of Killarney charms with live music and an immigrant love-comedy set during the Great Famine, and Ghost Limb delivers a powerful, poetic confrontation of authoritarianism through mythic resonance set in Argentina’s Dirty War.
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Ghost Limb by Marisela Trevino Orta and directed by Elena Velasco
April 30 - May 23, 2026 I Gunston Arts Center
A timely and haunting examination of authoritarianism set during Argentina's Dirty War that draws poetic inspiration from the Persephone and Demeter myth. When Consuelo's son is "disappeared" by the military, she discovers a psychic link between her injured arm and her tortured child-and races to find him before it's too late.