←Recommendations of Black Mexican

The proverbial play-that-I-could-not-stop-reading. The pace is brisk yet contemplative, and the significant issues brought up are carefully considered in all of their dimensions. The piece never shies away from how complicated these topics truly are and fully explores the ramifications of gate-keeping in all of its manifestations. Yet it never feels didactic and instead uses richly imagined, fully realized characters to express each point-of-view. A formidable, important, and urgent work.

A powerful play that tackles the inclusivity of cultures and who fits the bill to belong when we're all too eager to exclude. Well done.

I was lucky enough to attend a reading of this at the San Diego Latinx new play festival. It is possibly the greatest unproduced play in the Americas right now. Rachel Lynett creates a heart-breaking and moving story that magnifies the issues of colorism and identity-pirating within Latinidad. Bravo! This needs to be on Broadway TODAY.

Playwrights Foundation highly recommends BLACK MEXICAN, which excelled to the Finalist round (top 35) for the 44th annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival out of 755 plays. Our community of readers felt this play best represented the mission of our festival. This work engaged us, inspired us, moved us, and was an outstanding example of transformative storytelling. Our local Bay Area Literary Council commends BLACK MEXICAN as a compelling, relevant, cathartic new work which should be produced now. Congratulations! #BAPF2021

So much to unpack in this play. Lynett has done a great job at asking big questions and tacking urgent themes in a story that feels so personal and intimate.

I am continually flabbergasted by how the ever prolific Rachel Lynett manages to churn out amazing new pieces that feel like they're speaking to the absolute current moment. This is a fast-moving piece that crackles with humor while it explores and tackles the complex and unsettling realities of cultural gatekeeping and anti-Blackness both within the Latinidad and the world at large, all with a deeply intersectional focus. These characters are incredibly well-defined, and I'm so excited to see how this piece continues to develop as it lives and breathes in readings, workshops, and productions.

"I hate that we’re all so...I don’t know...shitty about how we include people across the diaspora."

Taking on cultural appropriation, unconscious bias, blended identity, and whole bunch of other hot button issues about race, class, and cultural divisions inside a culture and out, Rachel Lynett pulls no punches and leaves one on the floor gasping. A stunning work, and a necessary work. I'd love to be in the audience when this is produced, which it should be – often.

Wow. Rachel has crafted a piece that's accessible, moving, fast-paced, and incredibly relevant to this moment in time. Black Mexican is a play creating space for necessary questions and necessary voices.