Boleros for the Disenchanted and Other Plays by José Rivera

Author:José Rivera [Rivera, José]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: American, Hispanic American Studies, Ethnic Studies, General, Caribbean & Latin American, Drama, Social Science, Love & Romance, Family & Relationships, Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781559367288
Google: WPboCAAAQBAJ
Amazon: 1559363908
Goodreads: 16388826
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Published: 2012-08-21T00:00:00+00:00

(Mayannah goes to a record player. Music plays: an old bolero. Mayannah starts to dance.)

What kind of hostess am I? Letting everything get so morbid. Life’s what’s important tonight. Let’s talk about life! Let’s talk about love!

ANI: Let’s talk about two hundred thousand dollars!

(Mayannah beckons to Ani and she goes to her. Mayannah holds Ani and they slow-dance together.)

Okay, life sounds good. So the parents are dead, huh?

MAYANNAH: Yes—but in life they were so in love, you couldn’t be in the room with them when they got, you know, that way. In life my father was a big success in television.

ANI: Television? Really?

MAYANNAH: My Papi was seen and loved by millions. But that was before all the news programs had their balls cut off.

ANI: Seen? Your father was on the air?

MAYANNAH: Remember when they used to have international news? He did those. So I was told by La Doña. You see, I have facts about my parents but no memories . . .

ANI: What time was your father on the air?

MAYANNAH: Twice every day.

ANI: At six and eleven?

MAYANNAH: At six and eleven! How did you know?

ANI: Now you’re just fucking with me.

MAYANNAH: Were you a fan? But he died before you were born. For sure, if you saw him, though, he would’ve driven you crazy.

ANI: Stop saying things like that!

MAYANNAH: Made Mami so jealous! La Doña told me that, in Puerto Rico, my parents loved to take long walks along the beach together. They touched each other in shameless ways, in full view of the birds and joggers! La Doña says my parents were obsessed with tigers. She says they read Borges and Kipling to me every night, spoke about tigers in whispers, and understood them in some weird, amazing way.

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