National Book Award finalist Cristina García, gender-bending comedian Marga Gomez, and Grammy-winning “bongocero” Carlos Caro teamed up with a cast full of Latinx actors to bring Garcia’s colorful portrait of the Cuban cultural and political landscape to the stage.
Two combative octogenarians: one in Cuba, a ruthless dictator, “El Comandante,” maintains an ineffectual grip on power while pretending that neither his crumbling nation nor his rapidly deteriorating health are headed for disaster. The other, in steamy Miami, irascible exile Goyo Herrera plots revenge, hell-bent on staying alive long enough to see the dictator to his grave. Both are coming to terms with loves lost, people wronged, failing health, and the legacies they’ll soon enough be leaving behind. What will get El Comandante first—old age, or old Goyo?
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Photos by J. Norrena
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Marga Gomez makes sure machismo doesn’t rule in ‘King of Cuba’
Radio Interview on KALW with Cristina García and Marga Gomez (starts at 30 minutes)