Winner of the Casa de Teatro Prize (Dominican Republic), Damiana's
Reprieve is a fine novella distinguished by insight and sensitivity. It
gives a candid look at a young opera singer--what happens backstage
before and during performances, and what happens when unexpected turns
in life leave one facing the not-so-cliché reality that the show must go
on.
Damiana is the lead in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, and leading up
to the opening day's performance a sequence of unexpected events--from a
surprise family reunion that forces her to analyze her past, to facing
the consequences of the domestic abuse she and her siblings endured, and
finding the answer to a very painful question--culminate to leave her
world forever altered. Translated from the Spanish.