Learn to Be Latina
Enrique Urueta's equal opportunity offender has toured the country. But Diversionary's iffy production makes one wonder why it's getting so much play. In order to advance her career, execs tell Hanan Mashalani, a promising young singer, that she isn't marketable. She must drop her Lebanese heritage and pose as a Latina (she must "keep the West and drop the rest"). Diversionary's staging, by an uncredited director, has sketchy scenes, languid pacing, and uninspired choreography. It becomes clear that the script needs externals — offensive racial slurs, an obnoxious hand puppet — to prop up a flimsy storyline. Along the way, the playwright dabbles with the politics of gender, identity, and sexual preference. But they linger in the wings, more than anything else, as pseudo-validations of the story.
When
Ongoing until Sunday, December 18, 2011
Hours
| Sundays, 2pm & 7pm |
| Thursdays, 8pm |
| Fridays, 8pm |
| Saturdays, 8pm |