Culture clash at Arizona State University takes center stage in satire ‘Speak Spanish to Me’ From: azcentral.com
Tagged: Arizona, Arizona State University, Chicano, Colombia, student
Speak Spanish to Me is culture-clash satire about a romance between two freshmen, one Anglo and one Latino, at Arizona State University. If that sounds tailor-made for a Valley audience, it is.
“I was looking for a certain kind of play and couldn’t find one,” says Matthew Wiener, artistic director of Actors Theatre. “It’s being written to spec, kind of.”
The world-premiere comedy was written by Bernardo Solano, who was born in Colombia and raised in the States with an Ivy League education. It was “kind of ” written to spec because it started as a one-act from his college days, inspired by the true story of a Chicano student at Harvard who responded to the pressures of his own culture-clash experience by robbing convenience stores. “*
*From: www.azcentral.com
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