I saw the world premiere production of that drive thru monterey Stages in Houston earlier this month, and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. olmos has created a magic trick in this play; as monterey moves through the nonlinear river of her life, I felt as if I were watching my own life unfold. A beautiful, hopeful, tragic, devastating portrait of a resilient woman, washing the audience over in her memories. May this play have long life ahead of it.

We are please to support this play and playwright! This play was a featured staged reading in our 2022 New Works Festival at Kitchen Dog Theater in Dallas, Texas.

A beautiful piece that centers around two human, lived-in characters and a touching, organically evolving relationship. I loved the combination of authentic humanity with lyrical language and moments of fantastical/theatrical visual storytelling. At the center of the piece is an exploration of the negative impacts of machismo/toxic masculinity, of how people struggle to avoid it, and of how it is passed down through generations. The historical context is also wonderfully threaded throughout, and I loved how richly built the world was with so few characters. Who we saw and who we didn't see were equally important.