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Much that is not violent is called violence; much that is not traumatizing gets labeled trauma.
(What a title!
The title is my favorite part of the show.)
Velez Melendezs characters cry out things like:
Gender forms people, people form a nation!
So the colonization of the nation is the colonization of the mind!
We have to take charge!!!
Determine who we are!!!
I (and my inner Fran) were silently screaming.
Gender is not nationhood, and self-sovereignty is not self-governance.
To decolonize, someone needs toget some goddamned land back.
Notesstarts with a prologue.
The 2016 passage of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act a.k.a.
Now Lolita has come to New York, tired of this shit.
Her namesake, the Boricua revolutionary Lolita Lebron, fired a gun into the House of Representatives in 1954.
Unlike Lebron, shes not going to fire in the air.
Do we hesitate to kill our leaders because were tired?
Or … are we tired because we keep hesitating to kill our leaders?
La Perdidas drag impressions aremanysteps removed from impersonation.
etc., etc.).
Previously known as Father David Skeel, I am now BISHOP!!!!
AVID!!!!
SILK!!!!
Communicator of the divine … Prophet of the Profiteers … and Messenger of God!!!!
Notesis woolly-minded, but every now and then, it draws on deep wells of feeling to organize itself.
Despite its high production values, David Mendizabals production feels more like a workshop presentation than a finished project.
Velez Melendez wants to discuss Puerto Rican independence and revolution, and discussing revolution means discussingmeans.
Lolita has a gun.
I would call that an important question.
But the plays two styles goal-oriented political theater and a drag fabulousness parade dont play well together.
Is it a wig?
Is it a coup?
Is it a joke?
Are you serious right now?Bishop, kindly.
Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Membersis at Soho Rep through June 19.
