LA COCINA
Scenic and prop design
The New School
122CC Theater at Mabou MinesLa Cocina follows the lives of immigrant workers in a bustling New York City restaurant kitchen, exploring race, identity, class, and the struggle for survival.

We envisioned the kitchen as a kind of purgatory. It’s a space of endless cycles of labor, suspended between hope and uncertainty. Repetitive stainless steel workstations extend beyond the boundaries of the theater, creating a cold, institutional world where workers become part of the machinery of labor. With the audience seated on opposite sides, the workers are constantly exposed, with nowhere to hide or escape. Beneath this rigid, orderly environment, tensions simmer as the workers struggle to survive and pursue their dreams.

“It’s all about survival. Isn’t it?”
Written by: Tony Meneses
Directed by: Danica Selem
Choreographer/Movement Consultant:
Flora Ferguson
Set Design: Joyce He
Lighting Design: Shane Hennessy
Costume Design: Nuzzi Li
Sound Design: Liam Bellman-Sharpe
Dramaturg: Dezi Tibbs
Technical Coordinator: Žilvinas Jonušas
 

































 



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