Matt Barbot's the beautiful land i seek (la linda tierra que busco yo) will play a world premiere engagement at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater beginning December 4. Performances will continue through December 29, with an official opening on December 11. José Zayas will direct. 

Set in 1950, the work follows two would-be assassins on a train from New York to Washington, D.C. as they discuss their intent to strike in the name of Puerto Rican independence, before their plans are interrupted. Casting will be announced at a later date. 

The production will feature set design by Tristan Jeffers (Hindsight); costume design by Haydee Zelideth (Wet Brain); lighting design by Lucrecia Briceno (Our Dear Dead Drug Lord); sound design by Chad Raines (Laughing in Jail); and movement, fight, and intimacy direction by Amaal Saifudeen. Caren Celine Morris (Hound Dog, Bite Me) will serve as production stage manager.

The world premiere is presented by Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Latinx Playwrights Circle, and Fault Line Theatre. 

“Partnerships are inherent to our mission,” Rosalba Rolón, Artistic Director of Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, said in a statement. “...We've developed a dream team with Latinx Playwrights Circle and Fault Line Theatre for the world premiere of Matt Barbot’s daring and funny new play, the beautiful land i seek (la linda tierra que busco yo), under the direction of José Zayas. This is a doubly auspicious undertaking as our company of artists reboots its Plataforma co-producing initiative for Latinx theater, conceived in collaboration with the late and great Miriam Colón.”

Tickets will be available here beginning September 1.