Free Tickets

Join the Humanities Program at Revelle College and the Department of Theater + Dance for the sixth installment of the Humanities Event Series, featuring a cast of UC San Diego students and alumni in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's play, Love is the Greater Labyrinth.

In Love is the Greater Labyrinth — newly translated by UCLA's Diversifying the Classics — Sor Juana reimagines and transforms the classical myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. In Sor Juana’s version, Theseus (Teseo) braves the labyrinth and defeats the monster, but then confronts a greater challenge: an emotional labyrinth created by beautiful princesses, rival lovers, tyrannical kings, and scheming servants.

At the heart of the play, Theseus is torn between his duty to Ariadna, who helped him survive the Minotaur, and his love for her sister, Fedra. Around this central issue, Sor Juana constructs a story designed to delight the audience full of music, masked balls, mistaken identities, midnight trysts, and duels to the death. By reimagining the story of Theseus and the Minotaur as a multi-sided love story for a seventeenth-century audience in New Spain, Sor Juana has created a new type of myth, one that speaks as clearly and powerfully to our contemporary moment as it did to the court of a Viceroy in colonial Mexico City.

Director Ludmila de Brito
Stage Manager Stephanie Carrizales

Location and Parking
Mandeville Auditorium is located off Mandeville Loop and Gilman Drive. The closest lot is NTTPL - Scholars Parking, with entry off of North Torrey Pines Road and "Exploration Drive." Visitor parking is available on Level 1. Parking is $2.10/hr. The closest ADA/Accessible parking is Lot 416, across the street from the Mandeville Center, directly off of Mandeville Lane. Permits can be purchased through a pay station, or with ParkMobile – the link can be found at the bottom of this page.

Sponsors
This event is sponsored by the Humanities Program at Revelle College, the UC San Diego Parents Fund, the Revelle College 60th Anniversary Committee, the UC San Diego Alumni Association, and Chicanx and Latinx Studies. Additional support was provided by UCLA's Diversifying the Classics.

Graphic designed by Andy Metcalf, Revelle College Class of 2026.