Theater: Torera :Written by Monet Hurst-Mendoza at WP Theater in NYC
September 20 @ 7:00 pm
$20 – $40
Co-Production with WP Theater, The Sol Project, and Latinx Playwrights Circle and Long Wharf Theater.
September 20 – October 19, 2025
Written by Monet Hurst-Mendoza
Directed and Choreographed by Tatiana Pandiani
In Yucatán, Mexico, where bullfighting is a tradition dominated by men, Elena María Ramírez defiantly dreams of becoming a torera. Raised alongside Tanok Cárdenas, the son of a celebrated matador, Elena grows up just outside the world she longs to enter. When her talent in the bullring becomes impossible to ignore, she begins training in secret, stepping into a journey of ambition, identity, and resistance. As Elena’s pursuit challenges the patriarchal order around her, both families must confront the roles they’ve inherited and the forces of class, gender, and desire that bind them. With striking visual poetry, Torera explores who gets to step into the ring — and what must be risked to get there.
