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El Paso Blue

  • Octavio Solis
  • Full Length Play, Drama
  • 3M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573705021

"...[a] hootenanny of a script. El Paso Blue is an extravagantly written, emotionally overwrought potboiler that, even in its quiet moments, whoops with a full-bodied yell."

Pittsburgh City Paper

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 90 minutes

  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Alcohol

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
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 his wife has been taken.
REVIEWS:

"Winningly intense!"

 The Washington Post

"...[a] hootenanny of a script. El Paso Blue is an extravagantly written, emotionally overwrought potboiler that, even in its quiet moments, whoops with a full-bodied yell."

 Pittsburgh City Paper

"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

Premiere Production: El Paso Blue premiered at Intersection for the Arts in a co-production with Campo Santo in San Francisco, CA in May 1994 under the direction of Octavio Solis.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 2F

  • AL
    JEFE
    SYLVIA
    DUANE
    CHINA

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    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 his wife has been taken.

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