Playing Latinx at Maltings Theatre, OVO

An actor from South America newly arrived in London very quickly realises hell mostly be hired to play exotic characters gigolo, thug, pool cleaner with comedy accent - so he adapts. He moves, speaks and writes like a stereotypical Latinx person should. But as he learns to play the game with increasing success, he starts to question how far he himself is becoming complicit in perpetuating the mythic nature of these stock characters and how much he is losing touch with his own identity.In his one-person interactive show, writer/performer Guido Garcia Lueches merges spoken word poetry, stand-up comedy and music to explore both the wider issue of what the Latinx label means in the UK and on a more personal level, the lengths we go to to fit in.