Trafficking In Broken Hearts
by Edwin Sánchez

“The heft of TRAFFICKING IN BROKEN HEARTS owes as much to its compassion as to its grit, of which there is plenty.

Edwin Sanchez's searing three-hander about Times Square hustlers… …TRAFFICKING charts its fragmented course around 42nd Street in the days before Rudy Giuliani and Disney.

It concerns jaded Papo, a streetwise Puerto Rican from the Bronx, on the stroll since his teens.

After virginal lawyer Brian puts the tentative moves on Papo, TRAFFICKING appears to be a roundelay between opportunist and closet case.

Enter pathological Bobby, a 17-year-old runaway from institutionalization and fraternal abuse.

Spurred by Sanchez's pungent, well-observed dialogue, the triangle that evolves is graphic yet artful, often wickedly funny and finally quite moving.”David C Nichols, Los Angeles Times “Playwright Edwin Sanchez makes a promising New York debut with TRAFFICKING IN BROKEN HEARTS, a grim, streetwise and bracingly compassionate work... ...he convinces with the honesty of his writing and a canny, thoughtful grasp of his trio of characters.

The playwright does an especially effective job in penning the gray shades of his characters....”Greg Evans, Variety