FLESH & BLOOD

by Tatiana Suarez-Pico

In Brooklyn, factories thrive as they hire undocumented workers and skimp on benefits. Luckily for Cala and Evaristo, they work at one of the most successful business on the block: “CINTEO” - Abundio’s tortilla factory. One night, while Cala and Abundio have sex in his office at the tortilla factory, Evaristo gruesomely dies in the room next door. Abundio tries to cover up the real cause of Evaristo’s death...

In Brooklyn, factories thrive as they hire undocumented workers and skimp on benefits. Luckily for Cala and Evaristo, they work at one of the most successful business on the block: “CINTEO” - Abundio’s tortilla factory. One night, while Cala and Abundio have sex in his office at the tortilla factory, Evaristo gruesomely dies in the room next door. Abundio tries to cover up the real cause of Evaristo’s death forcing Cala to choose between her loyalty to Abundio and her sense of what’s right. Their lives unravel as Abundio slowly realizes that Evaristo’s death has awakened something unexpected in Cala– a desire for justice.

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  • National New Play Network: FLESH & BLOOD by Tatiana Suarez-Pico
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    This play was developed at The National New Play Network MFA Playwrights Workshop. This program, conducted annually in conjunction with The Kennedy Center and the National Center for New Plays, provides a graduate–level student playwright with an NNPN-affiliated director and dramaturg, a professional cast for a week of script development, and an introduction to the Network, its Membership, and programs.

    This play was developed at The National New Play Network MFA Playwrights Workshop. This program, conducted annually in conjunction with The Kennedy Center and the National Center for New Plays, provides a graduate–level student playwright with an NNPN-affiliated director and dramaturg, a professional cast for a week of script development, and an introduction to the Network, its Membership, and programs.

    ”
  • Danielle Ward: FLESH & BLOOD by Tatiana Suarez-Pico
    “

    A provocative piece that explores the have’s and have not’s as well as the morality of management as the union is trying to hold the owner of the Tortilla Factory accountable. Yet the piece also offers some very personal drama, This was a well-crafted drama that addresses love, lies, greed, politics, and the misguided choices we make as human beings. While there aren’t many people to route for, except maybe the poor pregnant woman, the characters are each surprisingly sympathetic in their own turn.

    A provocative piece that explores the have’s and have not’s as well as the morality of management as the union is trying to hold the owner of the Tortilla Factory accountable. Yet the piece also offers some very personal drama, This was a well-crafted drama that addresses love, lies, greed, politics, and the misguided choices we make as human beings. While there aren’t many people to route for, except maybe the poor pregnant woman, the characters are each surprisingly sympathetic in their own turn.

    ”