2/21/2023 0 Comments Soho notesAs directed by David Mendizábal, who also designed the irrepressible costumes, the show takes place less in an office than in a shimmering theater of the mind. The receptionist then provides a fabulous interpretation of each member - dancing and lip syncing, makeup immaculate.ĭemented, exuberant and appropriately angry, Vélez Meléndez’s play borrows from European absurdist theater, like the plays of Jarry and Genet, as well as a tradition of Latin American surrealism. Conveniently, they have a prop gun coated in gold glitter in a handy drawer, which she can use in their playlet. “I haven’t found, haven’t been satisfied? With any word that represents myself maybe,” they say.Ī drag performer, the receptionist suggests that Lolita should prepare for her task by pretending to shoot a drag version of each of the seven board members. The receptionist doesn’t have a name and their gender identity is unresolved. Few of that board’s members lived in Puerto Rico, which added to criticism of the act as colonialist. In a move with celebrity backing - Lin-Manuel Miranda was at the time a supporter - Congress passed the Puerto Rican Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act, known as Promesa, which gave an unelected board the power to restructure the island’s debt and impose fiscal austerity. By 2016, Puerto Rico’s credit crisis had worsened significantly, with the island owing more than $70 billion. A political allegory, a savage drag show and a folie à deux with far too much gunplay for anyone who has lived through the past week’s news, “Notes” is a trigger warning writ large and in glitter, a fever dream with streamers.įor those who don’t follow Puerto Rico’s political and economic fortunes, a brief history lesson will prove useful. “Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members,” a hot and bothered new play by Mara Vélez Meléndez, is a psychodrama with an emphasis on - and I mean this in the nicest possible way - psycho.Ī coproduction of Soho Rep and the Sol Project, the show imagines a young woman with a personal mission to assassinate the bureaucrats responsible for restructuring Puerto Rico’s debt and the queer receptionist who abets her.
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