About this Event
Olga is in labor. She is also seven years old, surviving the tyranny of her father. She is also at a park bench watching her son hunt roly-polies. She is also in a psychic séance being told her destiny. She is also burying her father in Greece in the middle of a pandemic. Becoming Apparent is one woman's reckoning with what she experienced as a child and what she is determined to not pass on.
The play moves on themes of generational trauma and the body as archive; the terror and ferocity of mothering; the oppression of women; shame, religion, and the long work of unlearning; and finally — fiercely — joy as a radical act, the thing her father couldn't touch and Olga refuses to lose.
Olga Konstantulakis began writing Becoming Apparent over a decade ago, during her first pregnancy, as a way to process her fear of becoming a mother. What started as a creative exploration slowly developed into something larger and more universal; how trauma lives in the body and how the path toward wholeness is never linear. Becoming Apparent deliberately abandons an A-to-Z narrative; instead, it expands, contracts, poems surface like breath, scenes loop back on themselves until something finally breaks open.
BIOS:
Olga Konstantulakis (Writer, Actor, Producer) is originally from Montreal. She last graced the stage as Veronica in God of Carnage, which was Thunderbird Garage's inaugural production here in LA. Other acting credits include Helvetica, Logan in The Thanksgiving Play, Heidi Schreck in What the Constitution Means to Me, and Sonia in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. She played Jan in the LA premiere of Fifty Words which she co-produced and Seta in Beast on the Moon (Ovation Recommended, Critic's Pick Backstage and LA Weekly) which she also produced, Agnes in The Shadow Box, Leah in The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, Masha in Three Sisters or Perestroika, Beatrice in Modigliani and Mademoiselle “Y” in The Stronger, Collette in Four Dogs and a Bone, Bess in Bury the Dead, and Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest. Olga has starred in many short films and almost 50 commercials. When she isn't on stage, she is writing and playing her most important role in life - mother of two.
Elina de Santos (Director) - Directed Arthur Miller's The Price, currently running at Pacific Resident Theatre, The Fantasticks at The Ruskin Group Theatre. World Premieres: Painted Ponies by Ian McRae, Hostage by Michelle Kohlos Brooks, Family Riots by Gideon Jeph Wabvuta, In the Valley of the Shadow by Katherine Cortez, Nice Things by Vince Melocchi, Dirty Filthy Love Story by Rob Mersola, Razorback by John Pollono, Church & State by Jason Odell Williams. American Premiere Daytona by Oliver Cotton. LA Premieres; Smart Love by Brian Letscher, Bhutan by Daisy Foote, Stop Kiss by Diana Son, Falling by Deanna Jent, New Jerusalem by David Ives, Albee’s A Delicate Balance and Mamet’s Speed the Plow. PRT, Odyssey, WCJT: Gidion's Knot by Johnna Adams, Miller’s All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, & Broken Glass, Odets’ Rocket to the Moon, Awake & Sing!, & Williams’, Orpheus Descending -LADCC Direction. For the Chance Theater Seminar by Teresa Rebeck, Sweat by Lynn Nottage & Cry It Out by Molly Smith Metzler. For Ophelia’s Jump, Measure for Measure & Helvetica by Katie Coleman. Elina is the first female recipient of the LADCC Career Achievement in Directing Award and is the Founding Co-Artistic Director of Rogue Machine (2008-2024). As a Producer: POCATELLO (Sam D Hunter) LA Premiere, DIRTY FILTHY LOVE STORY (Rob Mersola) World Premiere, DYING CITY (Christopher Shinn) LA Premiere, Ovation Award for Best Production (2013), THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM (Enda Walsh) LA Premiere, VIVIEN (Rick Foster).
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LOCATION: PACIFIC RESIDENT THEATRE | 705 WANDA'S
This performance is part of the Daredevil Arts Festival, a multi-weekend performing arts festival co-presented by Electric Lodge and Pacific Resident Theatre, celebrating bold voices and multidisciplinary storytelling in the Venice community.
Choose from over 50 performances running July 11–19 (with an Opening Night Party on July 10). Tickets are $15 per show or $125 for an All-Access Pass. View the full lineup at daredevilarts.org/shows
Parking: Free in the Pacific Resident Theatre lot (subject to availability). Please DO NOT park in SPARC-reserved spaces because they will tow!! Overflow parking is available on Venice Blvd and surrounding streets.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Pacific Resident Theatre, 703 Venice Boulevard, Los Angeles, United States
USD 16.74
