Bartolomé de las Casas Ruins My Pool

In late 2000s Miami, Pamela and Patricio are two Argentine-Americans trying to live the American dream and succeeding pretty well. They have a lovely home with a flat screen TV, an Ingres painting, and a pool, which happens to be haunted by the ghost of a 16th Century Spanish Friar. When Pamela's brother Lautaro comes to visit however, after having been in jail for nearly a decade, a bitter rivalry lines...
In late 2000s Miami, Pamela and Patricio are two Argentine-Americans trying to live the American dream and succeeding pretty well. They have a lovely home with a flat screen TV, an Ingres painting, and a pool, which happens to be haunted by the ghost of a 16th Century Spanish Friar. When Pamela's brother Lautaro comes to visit however, after having been in jail for nearly a decade, a bitter rivalry lines up between Patricio and Lautaro. Making matters worse is that Patricio speaks terrible Spanish, and Lautaro terrible English, making the only real interlocutor Pamela, who has to keep the chaos at bay while also dealing with an increasingly needy and meddling ghost. Performed entirely in English but spoken in two languages, the play looks at the legacy of imperialism and colonialism in America through the domestic strife of an aspirational Latine family.
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Bartolomé de las Casas Ruins My Pool

Development History

  • Reading
    ,
    Latine Playwrights Circle
    ,
    2021

Awards

Finalist
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National Playwrights Conference
,
Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center
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2022