Theater Mitu presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Patravadi Theater in Bangkok, Thailand. Written by William Shakespeare/ Directed by Rubén Polendo. A collaboration between Mitu and various Kohn (classical Thai mask) dancers from Thailand’s renowned Patravadi Theater, the piece reconceptualizes Shakespeare’s romance as a manifestation of the tension between Eastern and Western thought.

Theater Mitu presents a production of Ahraihsak (previously titled Dhammashok) at New York’s CSV Center. The piece is an epic and mythical play, rooted in a story from ancient India. With over 40 characters played by twelve actors, Ahraihsak follows a regal prince as he transforms into a ruthless warrior striving to unite his country, and his subsequent conversion to Buddhism.

Theater Mitu presents a production in collaboration with NYU Graduate Acting Program of The Legend of The Kinnaree. Written and Directed by Rubén Polendo. inspired by the traditional Thai myth. Using Balinese and Commedia masks along with marionettes, this exploration of ghost stories and the theatrical is a reflection on the ideas of terror and haunting as it fits into contemporary social views.

Theater Mitu presents the dance-theater piece Happy Accident #1. Produced by Rubén Polendo/Choreographed by Scott Spahr/Created by Theater Mitu. This was done as part of the Ulster Country Ballet Festival of Dance. This purely aesthetic piece, a fusion of unintended moments generated in the Theater Mitu creation process, explores the notion of accident in the act of creation.

Theater Mitu presents a production in collaboration with The Juilliard School of The Odyssey. Written, Adapted and Directed by Rubén Polendo. Working in conjunction with a Pre-Helenic archaeologist, the company studied the source materials of Homer’s epic poem. The resultant adaptation stylistically manifests the style and atmosphere of a Pre-Helenic world allowing it to transcend the bounds of Homer’s vision.

Theater Mitu presents Dhammashok (a production later retitled Ahraihsak). With an original score by Todd Almond and text written by Rubén Polendo, this epic myth, rooted in a story from ancient India has over 40 characters played by a cast of 10 actors. Dhammashok follows a regal prince’s transformation from a ruthless warrior striving to unite his country to devout Buddhist committed to a life of non-violence.

Theater Mitu presents a production of The Ramayana. Written, Adapted and Directed by Rubén Polendo. Using shadow puppetry, masks, ritualized music and multi-ethnic drumming, this staging of the Hindu Sacred epic transcends race and religion to delve into the core of what it means to be human.

Theater Mitu presents a production in collaboration with NYU Graduate Acting Program of The Serpent Woman. Written and Directed by Rubén Polendo. Inspired by Carlo Gozzi’s The Serpent Woman and the traditional Japanese myth of The White Snake. Melding traditional Commedia with Japanese folk lore, this piece functions as a meditation on the attempt to find the spiritual within the comic.  

Theater Mitu presents Four Saints in /Mexico. Adapted (in collaboration with Theater Mitu member and Dramaturg Chris Mills), and Directed by Rubén Polendo. The production inspired by Gertrude Stein’s play Mexico and the text from Stein’s opera Four Saints in Three Acts attempts to manifest a cubist aesthetic and narrative in a meditation on memory as a sacred idea.

Using Shakespeare’s language, this non-narrative piece explores the mysterious joint suicides of a monarch and her female lover. Extrapolating Buddhist mysticism, Okinawan step work and Mudric stylization, the piece explores jealousy, power and gender.