plays
LOS FRIKIS
3F/3M. A bilingual historical cuban punk rock jukebox musical. LOS FRIKIS tells the true story of a community of young punks in Cuba in the late 80s and early 90s who faced so much adversity at the hands of the Cuban government that they self-injected with HIV-positive blood to access a higher quality of life living in the quarantined sanitariums. It uses music from a Cuban punk band called EsKoria, and follows a tight-knit group of friends trying to thrive in an oppressive regime. They fall in love and laugh and thrash while considering a liberated path to death as an actual alternative to being stifled at every turn.
maintaining
2F or GNC. A queer romance that spotlights the blurred lines between the political and the personal. Mai just moved into a new apartment and serendipitously gets intertwined with Nico who works as maintenance in the building. After another tenant is faced with a wrongful eviction, Mai and Nico have to navigate their different approaches to being a good neighbor, inciting debates about community solidarity, integrity, and privilege.
FRUITION
music & lyrics by Satya Jnani Chavez
4F. A contemporary musical about repressed gay moms. FRUITION frames queer identity as a form of trans-generational fate coming to fruition via our children, and what it means to witness the descendants of sexually-repressed ancestors living in radical acceptance of themselves. Considering liberated queerness as a legacy that gets quietly passed down as its own kind of reincarnation, we will follow two young queer women and their “straight” mothers as they see themselves fully for the first time.
with baited breath
music & lyrics by Nygel D. Robinson
2F/1M or 3 GNC. A 10-minute musical with a talking and singing fish. We watch two people on a third date where one person has cooked dinner for the other for the first time. However, the cook intentionally bombs the meal as a test to see how their date will react: be honest or be polite.