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Jobsite Theater

THE BUTTERFLY’S EVIL SPELL

Adapted from the play by Federico Garcia Lorca

Dates

Now – Jun 1, 2025

Venue

Shimberg Playhouse

SYNOPSIS

Who hasn’t desired that which they believe themselves unworthy?
Devised in Jobsite’s captivating style as expressed in Shockheaded Peter, Gorey Stories, and Jobsite’s Alice, this imaginative English-language adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s first play (El Maleficio de la Mariposa) fuses live music, visual art, puppetry, theater magic, and aerial arts into a thrilling theatrical experience. García Lorca’s mystically poetic world of beetles, fireflies, and other magical creatures is disrupted when a hypnotic, wounded butterfly enters their dewdrop paradise. A young beetle is cast under a love spell, but a hungry scorpion is sure to shake things up in this timeless tale of beauty and desire.
Sublimely alluring, haunting, lingering, invigorating: García Lorca’s carefully crafted poetry is given all-new life in this adaptation devised by the Jobsite Ensemble with original music from Jeremy Douglass, choreography by Alexander Jones, under the direction of David Jenkins. Douglass, Jones, and Jenkins are the award-winning braintrust behind last summer’s blockbuster production of THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW, which won a total of 8 Best of the Bay, BroadwayWorld, Theatre Tampa Bay and Watermark WAVE Awards.

Adapted from the play by Federico Garcia Lorca
Developed by the Ensemble
Music by Jeremy Douglass


Photo Credit: Stage Photography of Tampa

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SYNOPSIS

Who hasn’t desired that which they believe themselves unworthy?
Devised in Jobsite’s captivating style as expressed in Shockheaded Peter, Gorey Stories, and Jobsite’s Alice, this imaginative English-language adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s first play (El Maleficio de la Mariposa) fuses live music, visual art, puppetry, theater magic, and aerial arts into a thrilling theatrical experience. García Lorca’s mystically poetic world of beetles, fireflies, and other magical creatures is disrupted when a hypnotic, wounded butterfly enters their dewdrop paradise. A young beetle is cast under a love spell, but a hungry scorpion is sure to shake things up in this timeless tale of beauty and desire.
Sublimely alluring, haunting, lingering, invigorating: García Lorca’s carefully crafted poetry is given all-new life in this adaptation devised by the Jobsite Ensemble with original music from Jeremy Douglass, choreography by Alexander Jones, under the direction of David Jenkins. Douglass, Jones, and Jenkins are the award-winning braintrust behind last summer’s blockbuster production of THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW, which won a total of 8 Best of the Bay, BroadwayWorld, Theatre Tampa Bay and Watermark WAVE Awards.

Adapted from the play by Federico Garcia Lorca
Developed by the Ensemble
Music by Jeremy Douglass


Photo Credit: Stage Photography of Tampa

 


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Now – Jun 1, 2025

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