November 26, 2012
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This Is It: American Triage Final Countdown
This is it. The day before American Triage is read at Repertorio Español as part of their Met Life Nuestras Voces National Playwriting Competition. I really wish I was able to be there myself. It’s too bad that fate and my limited vacation days conspired to keep me here on the West Coast. Never fear, my director Tlaloc Rivas will take photos and report back to me on the entire event.But if you, dear reader, happen to be in NYC tomorrow evening and would like to see my play, by all means head over to Repertorio Espanol for the 6:30pm reading.I have been thinking about this play for a few weeks now, not just because I’ve been prepping the script for the reading. You see, American Triage is the 2nd play I ever wrote (technically it ties for 2nd since I was writing it and Woman on Fire simultaneously–side note: there are were some interesting details that due to writing osmosis ended up in both scripts without me realizing it) and it’s been about 4 years since I wrote it. In those 4 years I’ve developed a lot as a playwright, so I’m finding myself a little preoccupied by the fact that this play represents my abilities at an earlier stage in the game.Am I making sense?I’m still happy with the play I wrote. Lalo (the teenage boy in the play) is one of my favorite characters. Mainly because he just spouts off useless trivia, something I kinda used to do.And now, for no reason (actually some of you will know why):
