By Yuga Ma
Directed by Rodolfo Robles Cruz
We are sick and tired. So you know it’s time to believe us when we are ready to talk. To have our words chopped. To taste our tongues as if tasting honey and eyebrow. We do our best to keep our jobs. We do our best to answer all the calls, and stay on top of our friends’ lives. We give up and feel great giving up. So please be quiet. Protract the silence while we find hard ways of making sense of ourselves.
Transcendence will be presented as a reading as part of UTNT (UT New Theatre) 2025.
Reading dates
March 8 at 11:00 a.m.
Learn more about UTNT (UT New Theatre) 2025 here.
About the Playwright
Yuga Ma is a performance maker and writer from Northeast China. Her research and practice broadly engage with the everyday manifestation of the abstracted and the absent to disrupt the imagination of the world as given or guaranteed. Yuge is currently pursuing an M.F.A. in Theatre degree with a specialization in performance as public practice at The University of Texas at Austin. B.A. Philosophy, New York University.
About the Director
Rodolfo Robles Cruz is a M.F.A. in Theatre candidate with a specialization in directing at The University of Texas at Austin. He is a theatre artist from Morelia, Michoacan with strong roots in Fresno, California. He is a graduate from California State University, Fresno (CSU Fresno) where he earned his B.A. in Theatre Arts - Acting. As an artist, his work emphasizes the Latinx/Mexican family unit and the complexities of immigration and identity. Select directing credits: Oedipus el Rey by Luis Alfaro (Selma Arts Center); Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz (Madera Theatre Project); Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead by Bert V. Royal (Experimental Theatre Company). As a playwright, Robles Cruz has had his work performed at the Selma Arts Center, CSU Fresno's Experimental Theatre Company, Teatro Espejo and California State University, Fullerton's One Act Play Festival. His play La Norteña is the regional winner of the 2020 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival's National Playwriting Program's One Act Play Category.
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