His-Panic Breakdown Plays Miami Beach's Botanical Garden
By: Beau Higgins Jun. 24, 2005
Hosts:
EDGE Theatre in 12 July Performances of:
"Men on the Verge of a His-Panic Breakdown"July 9 – July 31Performances Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM
Sunday Matinees at 2PMA Comedy by Playwright Guillermo Reyes
Directed by Jim Tommaney, EDGE Theatre Artistic DirectorWinner of the Los Angeles Ovation Award for Best World Premiere Play
Winner of New York City's Best Emerging Playwright Award
Guest appearance by Mr. Reyes on Saturday, July 9 with audience
discussion, questions and answers following the performance.Seven gay Hispanic immigrants cope with the American experience,
including one running a Cuban restaurant in Arizona, one who has
become an actor so Anglized that he can't get an Hispanic role, and
one teaching English to other immigrants. The comedy opens and
closes with young Federico, played by Andrio Chavarro, who arrives
in L.A. the day of the riots, and mistakes the looting for American
open-handed generosity.The comedy also stars Ger del Busto, Daniel Lugo, Ruben Angel Pinon,
and Gustavo Meneses as the Mime.
Garden Member $10For information and reservations, telephone 786-355-0976.The Miami Beach Botanical Garden
2000 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach
(Opposite Hall D of the MB Convention Center)
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