El Santo Americano
Edward Lee
El Paso Blue
by Octavio Solis
Highlights
90 mins Present Day Role(s) for Latine Actor(s) Unit Set/Multiple Settings Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
Synopsis
Al has to take the rap for his pal Duane’s botched robbery, but before he goes, he leaves his drunken ex-beauty-queen wife, Sylvie, in the care of his father, Jefe.
In the year he is gone, Jefe and Sylvie fall in love, and when Al is granted early parole, he enlists Duane in a mad and murderous hunt for the fleeing lovers.
In the course of their search, they meet China, a weird changeling who wields a water gun filled with ammonia and purports to know where Al’s wife has been taken.
Press Reviews
"El Paso Blue is a Tex-Mex, po-mo, tragi-comic revenge musical, a knockout of a show."
— Philadelphia City Paper
"Ambitious and stylistically nervy."
— San Francisco Chronicle
"A concentrated, continually inventive, darkly comic delight."
— San Francisco Examiner
"An exciting melodramatic thriller with mythic-poetic overtones."
— The Oakland Tribune
Characters
| Character |
|---|
| Jefe |
| Sylvia |
| Duane |
| China |
| Al |
Publication
El Paso Blue is a play written by Octavio Solis and published by Samuel French .
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Fee: Minimum Fee: $120 per performance
Restrictions: Major Markets Only (US) / Standard Restriction (UK)
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