Aux Dog Theatre’s Q Solo Festival features six actors
Nob Hill’s Aux Dog Theatre holds its third annual Q Solo Festival, with six actors, from Thursday through Feb. 5. This year’s celebration features two New Mexico premieres, original works and a performance by transgender artist/musician Cydny Bullens.
The series opens with Ninette Mordaunt’s two-hour show about the life of Madame Curie, “The Seven Ages of Manya,” directed by Georgia Athearn on Jan. 5-6. Curie was the first woman to win two Nobel Prizes in physics. Mordaunt has performed on most Albuquerque stages. Performances start at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $15.
The festival continues with two solo performances. Lena Armstrong will debut “Tales of a Hoarding Minimalist,” the story of her journey through 40 years of hoarded boxes of notes, letters, photos and stuff as ghosts and stories emerge from the clutter.
Michelle Estrada Allred’s original “Secretos de Baños” showcases a woman sharing her “bathroom secrets” as she invites the audience into the private moments of her childhood to the present day.
Performances are scheduled for 2 p.m.
and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 7 and 8. Tickets are $15.
Directed by Tanya Taylor Rubinstein, Debrianna Mansini’s “The Meatball Chronicles” traces the culinary journey of her childhood, her relationships and –– especially –– her complicated relationship with her mother. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Jan. 13-14 and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 15. Tickets $15.
Albuquerque’s Angela Littleton will perform Santa Fe playwright Mark Dunn’s “Elvis and Eleanor,” directed by Kristine Holtvedt . Trudy Turman’s half-sister is going to perform her onewoman play, “Eleanor, the Twilight Years,” at a charity event. But when she is unable to perform, Trudy steps in with just an hour’s rehearsal. When it becomes obvious to everyone that she isn’t the actress she had led folks to believe, she decides to salvage the carnage by telling the story of the night she spent with Elvis Presley. Performances are at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Jan. 20-21 and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 22. Tickets $15.
Cidny Bullens will perform “Somewhere Between: Not an Ordinary Life,” the autobiographical play about the Grammy-nominated musician Cindy Bullens and his transformational journey to his true self, Cidny. Performances are scheduled for Jan. 27-29 and Feb. 3-5, at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 3 p.m. on Sundays.