In the Time of the Butterflies
by: Caridad Svich
Directed by: Ricardo Gutiérrez
Costume Designer: Uriel Gomez
Lighting Design: Richard Norwood
Set Design: Andrei Onegin
Based on Julia Álvarez’s popular novel, In The Time of the Butterflies, is a fictionalized account of the story of the courageous Mirabal sisters from the Dominican Republic. The sisters inspired resistance cells throughout the country against the dictatorial regime of Gen. Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. The ‘butterflies’, their secret code name, were brutally murdered by the regime in 1960.