Midnight Revolutions

Synopsis

Cuba, during a single night before May Day

Celia stands at the edge of the sea, her arms laden with sunflowers – an offering to a brother she never knew. In the shadowy streets behind her, a tapestry of lives unfolds against the backdrop of a crumbling revolution. Alex, a foreign photographer with a hidden past, stumbles bloodied into Celia’s world, his camera stolen along with his dreams of capturing Cuba’s last great parade. Their fateful encounter sets in motion a night of revelations, where long-buried secrets rise to the surface like the tide.

Espinosa Mendoza’s play pulses with the raw energy of a city on the brink, where desire and desperation dance cheek-to-cheek in the sultry Caribbean night. Through a series of interconnected vignettes, we meet a cast of characters etched in stark relief: the fierce lesbian El Maine, guardian of the streets; the flamboyant La Coubre, dreaming of spotlights and sequins; and the volatile Ernesto, whose violent past threatens to consume them all. As dawn approaches and the sounds of the parade begin to echo through the streets, these disparate souls collide in a explosive finale that lays bare the contradictions and complexities of life in modern Cuba.