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Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 2m
Matthew Paul Olmos
An American couple on holiday in Tijuana stumble off the beaten path, and are accosted by a Mexican couple in an alley.
***Received the 2009 Sundance Institute Time Warner Storytelling Fellowship Award.***
When Jonah and Adray cross the border into Tijuana for a quick vacation, they stumble off the beaten path and come face to face with a Mexican couple in an alley. What ensues is a humorous and complex dance that explores and challenges notions of boundaries, safety and identity.
I Put the Fear of Mexico in 'em received its world premiere with Teatro Vista at Chicago Dramatists in Chicago, IL on November 4, 2012.
EFREN – mexican, 37 JUANA – mexican, 30 ADRAY (uh-dray) – güera, 34 JONAH – güero, 34 VIVIA – female All Other Characters – mexican
The sort of alley you're not supposed to go down in Tijuana, Mexico.
"What ensues is a complex encounter that challenges notions of boundary, safety, identity and what you would do for your family. It's a dissection of difference, of connection, of the borders and barriers we use to distance ourselves, and those dangerous moments when we cross over those borders and barriers." - Philip Himberg, Artistic Director - Sundance Institute “An American couple is taken hostage in Matt Olmos’ frightening trip through a real and imagined Mexico. Olmos’ writing is both hallucinatory and brutal. His story of an American couple’s nightmare is not at all different from America’s nightmare with its ever present neighbor.” - Rogelio Martinez, playwright
Matthew Paul Olmos is a Mexican-American playwright who focuses his work on the creation of space for marginalized and underrepresented communities. While always personal, his work is aimed at reaching across sociopolitical boundaries, showing the ridiculous of how separate o ...