Teatro Audaz presents ‘Men on the Verge of a His-panic Breakdown’ by Guillermo Reyes and directed by Matthew Byron Cassi, Abe Rodriguez and Gabriel Torres.  It opens on Thursday April 29 at 7:30p.m. Live streamed performance dates: April 29 -May 2, recorded live scheduled performances dates May 6 – May 9. Performance times are Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 7:30p.m. and Sunday at 2p.m. Presale tickets are now available online. Performances are streamed live online and recorded from The Public Theater of San Antonio’s main stage. Featuring performances by Ivan Ortega, Fernando Vieira, and Jai Gonzalez-Quintero. (Teatro Audaz, 2021)

This series of comedic monologues, which The New York Times called “Glorious,” chronicles the lives of various Latino immigrants dealing with transcultural shock of race and gender identity known as the “Hispanic breakdown.” The play is bracketed by the misadventures of the naïve Frederico or “The Gay Little Immigrant That Could” who arrives in Los Angeles during the first day of the 1992 riots and believes he is witnessing the filming of another Lethal Weapon sequel. Other characters include Vinnie, a kept boy being asked to leave the home of his wealthy sugar daddy because he has turned 30; Paco, a Cuban restauranteur who was imprisoned by the Communists in Cuba for being gay and has now been exiled by his right-wing Miami family for the same reason; the Teacher, a stuffy, sexually repressed English-language instructor who abuses his Latino students when they cannot learn properly the “language of Princess Di”; and La Gitana, a drag Flamenco dancer struggling with AIDS as he stages his final performance. The play ends with Federico’s final misadventure as he tells of his newly found romance, a better job and his acquisition of citizenship in a grand, positive finale. “Some of the characters seem to be hanging onto their American existence by a thread, but make no mistake, these are tough, tenacious men.”