Theatre Wesleyan

presents

PLAYMARKET 2007 at 37 ARTS

The Body of Eva Peron

Written by

Angela Gant and W. L. Bryan

Directed by

Connie Whitt-Lambert

2:00 pm

May 18, 2007

37 Arts, Theatre C

37th Street between 9th & 10th

New York City

Featuring Texas Wesleyan University students:

BEN PHILLIPS             ALFREDO MARTINEZ                MICHAEL KREITZINGER

CHRIS HATCHER        ALAINA APPLEBY     ASHLEY MOSELEY

ERICA HEEBNER        CARI WATSON           JOSH COX

JOHNNY GONZALES             DILLON MARONEY               WHITNEY PARK

ROB CARROLL           CHASE BURNETT       JENNYE JAMES

A’NIE KIRCHNER       KELLY HENRY

SYNOPSIS

              After going missing for 15 years, the body of Eva Perón is delivered unannounced to her husband Juan’s house in Madrid.  Juan Perón is the former dictator of Argentina living in exile in Spain with his current wife, Isabel, and her personal secretary, the occultist José López Rega.  Dr. Ara, the anatomist responsible for embalming Eva’s body, is summoned and remains to tend to Juan’s health and to spend time with his beloved Eva.  Rega and Isabel are in love, but Rega’s life is in danger as past indiscretions have caught up to him in Madrid.  Eva animates selectively to drive the action and sets Rega, Isabel and Ara to perform their duties to get everyone back to Argentina so Juan can reassume the presidency from which he was removed 17 years earlier.  When they finally get back to Argentina, Juan becomes increasingly unstable and erratic as he suffers a heart attack and bouts of dementia, to say nothing of his alarming move back to fascism.  When Juan finally goes too far, Eva exhorts the others to play their part in killing him.