‘Spanish’ speaks odd language in ASU setting – play entitled “Speak Spanish to Me” From: azcentral.com
Tagged: Arizona, Arizona State University, stereotypesPosted on: April 30th, 2008
Call it “love in the time of stereotypes.” In Speak Spanish to Me, the world-premiere comedy at Actors Theatre, a perky blonde’s naive notions about Mexican-Americans are the basis of a romance that might be built to last.
It’s not just the Latin-lover thing that draws Liz to Frank on the first day of their freshman year at Arizona State University. Raised as a neo-hippie White liberal, the thought that her baggy-pants-wearing suitor might be a migrant worker, valiantly battling his way out of poverty, appeals to her class-conscious idealism.”*
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