Men on the Verge of a His-panic Breakdown

The play is bracketed by the misadventures of the naive Frederico or "The Gay Little Immigrant That Could" who arrives in Los Angeles during the first day of the 1992 riots and believes he's witnessing the filming of another Lethal Weapon sequel

Other characters include Vinnie, a kept boy being asked to leave the home of his wealthy sugar daddy because he's turned 30

Edward, a Latino actor passing for Anglo who gets a Latino part and has to deal with his real identity

The Demon Roommate, a lonely young man with an apartment a little too close to the airport

Paco, a Cuban restauranteur who was imprisoned by the Communists in Cuba for being gay and has now been exiled by his right-wing Miami family for the same reason

The Teacher, a stuffy, sexually repressed English-language instructor who abuses his Latino students when they can't learn properly the "language of Princess Di"

And La Gitana, a drag Flamenco dancer struggling with AIDS as he stages his final performance

The play ends with Federico's final misadventure as he tells of his newly found romance, a better job and his acquisition of citizenship in a grand, positive finale

REVIEWS

"Glorious ... Some of the characters seem to be hanging onto their American existence by a thread, but make no mistake, these are tough, tenacious men" ~ New York Times