Previews
Thursday June 1; 8:30pm
Saturday June 3, 2:00pm

Runs
Thu, Jun 08 – Sat, Jun 17
Thursday June 8, 8:30pm
Friday June 9, 5:30pm
Saturday June 10, 8:30pm
Friday June 16,8:30pm
Saturday June 17, 8:30pm
Show Calendar

BUY TICKETS
$20 previews and matinee
$25 Thursdays
$30 Friday and Saturday night

Special Events
Opening Night Benefit for Amnesty International

Special Show Info
Running time: 150 minutes.
There will be an intermission.
Adult themes. Stage (non-graphic) depictions of racism, torture and sexual harassment appropriate to the text. This play is not appropriate for young children. Gunshot sounds. Simulated smoking, fog possible, strobe lights

Hudson Backstage Theatre
6539 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA  90038
Valet Parking
Area Map

Special Theatre Info
Wheelchair Access
The theatre has concessions.

Octopus in Its Own Ink is a nail-biting drama of intrigue and family in the pressure cooker of dictatorship. A work for contemporary theater employing magical realism and simultaneous action, Octopus in Its Own Ink is also a fast-moving thriller. Based on true events and set in the Dominican Republic in the last days of the infamous Trujillo regime (1960), it touches stories of millions across Latin America and elsewhere who’ve struggled between safety for their loved ones, and resistance to brutal regimes that torture and ‘disappear’ their people.

As Don Mario, a diplomat fallen from favor, seeks to get his family out of the country that is descending into chaos, his eldest sons face torture, uncertainty and death while plotting guerilla action against the dictator that is coming to dinner the very next night. Caught at the center are the extended family relations- the female insurgent who seeks to lead, the young boy whose nightmares tell him more than anyone else, and the housekeeper whose love binds them together. The cultural role of food and dining, comes to the fore when ‘Octopus in its Own Ink’ is served at the fateful meal which brings to the drama to its clima