# Event Details

- **Event Name**: THE BUTTERFLY'S EVIL SPELL
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 07 May, 2025 at 07:30 pm – Wed, 07 May, 2025 at 08:45 pm
- **Event Description**: Who hasn’t desired that which they believe themselves unworthy? Wanted a thing we know we can never have? The Butterfly's Evil Spell deals not only with frustrated love but the power of nature, rebirth and transformation, and the virtue of the most humble among us.

Devised in Jobsite’s captivating style as expressed in Shockheaded Peter, Gorey Stories, and Jobsite’s Alice, this imaginative English-language adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s first play (El Maleficio de la Mariposa) fuses live music, visual art, puppetry, theater magic, and aerial arts into a thrilling theatrical experience. García Lorca’s mystically poetic world of beetles, fireflies, and other magical creatures is disrupted when a hypnotic, wounded butterfly enters their dewdrop paradise. A young beetle is cast under a love spell, but a hungry scorpion is sure to shake things up in this timeless tale of beauty and desire.

We know to some a love story featuring colorful bug puppets sounds like it must be for kids or at the very least would just be silly, but that’s not the case here — even though we’re surely encouraged to laugh at some of these characters quirky ways. García Lorca intentionally chose insects as his symbolic mouthpiece (“Why do you look down on Nature’s most negligible creatures?”) to allow us access to his pain and fiercely invests his genius into this allegorical world. In conservative and authoritarian Spain, his mere existence was dangerous and the 20-year-old poet would later be assassinated, shot by Nationalist forces as Franco came to power — not just for his political views but likely for his personal life.

Sublimely alluring, haunting, lingering, invigorating: García Lorca’s carefully crafted poetry is given all-new life in this adaptation devised by the Jobsite Ensemble with original music from Jeremy Douglass, choreography by Alexander Jones, under the direction of David Jenkins. Douglass, Jones, and Jenkins are the award-winning braintrust behind last summer’s blockbuster production of THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW, which won a total of 8 Best of the Bay, BroadwayWorld, Theatre Tampa Bay, and Watermark WAVE Awards.

García Lorca's inventive symbolist comedy drew inspiration from Yeats and Maeterlinck, and while it may have been ahead of its time for 1920, many aspects of its style and content became distinguishing features of his more mature dramas in Blood Wedding, Yerma, and The House of Bernarda Alba. 

THE BUTTERFLY'S EVIL spell features the ensemble of William Alejandro Barba, Katie Huettel, Jessy Julianna, Melía Lorenz, Nicholas Perez-Hoop, and Katrina Stevenson. 

Run time: this show is approximately 70 minutes with no intermission.

**Is this appropriate for kids?**

While Jobsite never offers direct age recommendations since we understand taste and sensitivity are subjective, we want to underscore that this show uses puppets but it is not designed as "children's theater." Those who know the shows mentioned at the top of the description will understand the aesthetic we are playing with. We never recommend any Jobsite performance for children 5 or younger, and this show does address themes of love and death that may simply be above some young folks' heads. Or not. Please write in if you have specific questions about the show that may help you make an informed decision for your group.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/tampa/the-butterflys-evil-spell/200028128081326
- **Event Categories**: art, kids, music, theatre, literary-art, entertainment, performances, live-music, comedy, rocky-horror-picture-show
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 45

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://www.strazcenter.org/events/2425-season/jobsite-theater/the-butterfly-s-evil-spell/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=tampa-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Tampa
- **state**: FL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 1010 N W C MacInnes Pl , Tampa, FL, United States, Florida 33602
- **lat**: 27.95227
- **long**: -82.4643
- **full address**: 1010 N W C MacInnes Pl , Tampa, FL, United States, Florida 33602

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Jobsite Theater (https://allevents.in/org/jobsite-theater/352874)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 07 May, 2025 at 07:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 1010 N W C MacInnes Pl , Tampa, FL, United States, Florida 33602
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Jobsite Theater
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, kids, music, theatre, literary-art, entertainment, performances, live-music, comedy, rocky-horror-picture-show
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about THE BUTTERFLY'S EVIL SPELL ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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