I Don't Speak Spanish
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I Don't Speak Spanish
by David Ramón Zayas
*Finalist - SparkFest '25, Amphibian Stage
*Quarterfinalist - ScreenCraft Stageplay Competition 2025
Full-length. I Don’t Speak Spanish follows a Mexican-American family line across the last 100 years and seeks to reframe that statement, "I don't speak Spanish," in the context of generations of struggle with assimilation, race, and class. It closely looks at three chokepoints--a dinner in 2019, a street fight...
*Finalist - SparkFest '25, Amphibian Stage
*Quarterfinalist - ScreenCraft Stageplay Competition 2025
Full-length. I Don’t Speak Spanish follows a Mexican-American family line across the last 100 years and seeks to reframe that statement, "I don't speak Spanish," in the context of generations of struggle with assimilation, race, and class. It closely looks at three chokepoints--a dinner in 2019, a street fight in 1943, and an impossible choice in 1915--where the inherent duality of the family's Latine experience is forced to be contended with. All of the stories told in the play are based on true historical events. The research into those events began with Zayas looking into his own family history and subsequently conducting personal interviews with over 30 people about their own family's experiences with language, identity, and race.
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