Theater Mitu remounts The Tutor in collaboration with The Juilliard School. Music by Rubén Polendo and Mark Schultz. Written and Directed by Rubén Polendo. Inspired by the writings of Brecht, Lenz and Büchner. Centering around a poor tutor who comes to stay with a wealthy provincial family, this play exposes the hypocrisy of religion and class discrimination and how the two can drive an individual to radical destructive action.

Centering around a poor tutor who comes to stay with a wealthy provincial family, this play exposes the hypocrisy of religion and class discrimination and how the convergence of these two things can drive an individual to radical and destructive action.

Inspired by the writings of Brecht, Lenz and Büchner.

Theater Mitu present a production in collaboration with NYU/Tisch of Hamletmachine. Adapted and Directed by Rubén Polendo. Based on a text by Heiner Müller. The play, traditionally viewed as an overwhelmingly political piece became an exploration of social and spiritual nature by delving more deeply into icons of gender and gendered behavior.

In an attempt to transliterate this epic poem for a contemporary world audience, Theater Mitu adapts this Hindu Holy Scripture as a treatise on nonviolence in a world with an inherent need for war.

Theater Mitu creates and produces but above all without a plan… Written by Rubén Polendo and S. Spahr/ Directed by Rubén Polendo as part of LITE’s Chekhov NOW Festival- As Curated by Anne Bogart. The letters of Anton Chekov inspire words, dance and extreme physicality that merge and collide within the accepted violence of vaudeville and explore the frustrations and motivations that drive an artist.

Theater Mitu presents a workshop at The Public Theater of Muin-al-Buka: The Master of Weeping. Written by M. Schultz/Directed by Rubén Polendo. Inspired by the Sufi Poet Rumi, the piece inhabits the sacred space of Iranian Tazi’eh. Using practices learned from whirling dervishes along with Turkish song and drumming, the company delves into the tremendous experience of this Muslim and Sufi mourning festival.

Theater Mitu produces Catholica Book II as part of The Lincoln Center/Bible Stories Festival. Conceived and Directed by Rubén Polendo. The piece is a continuation and extrapolation of the themes produced in Catholica Book I. 

The Mark Taper Forum/Taper Too produces Catholica Book I. Conceived and Directed by Rubén Polendo/Created by Theater Mitu. This piece, an exploration of children, faith and violence, works to uncover the effects formal religion has had in the creation of gender, character and identity.

Theater Mitu presents a production of Origen: an Aztec Myth Written and Directed by Rubén Polendo. This piece investigates Aztec mythology by way of Sanskrit influences in Nahuatl and pre-Columbian rituals.

Theater Mitu presents a production of The Noh Cycle. Written and Directed by Rubén Polendo. An adaptation of Zeami’s Noh plays The Damask Drum and Lady Han, the piece deconstructs an extraordinarily controlled form using West African drums, medieval pageantry, butoh and Balinese masks in an attempt to experience the two pieces as a cycle.