THE STORY: Toro is back in Madrid hanging out with his high school friends, Juan and Andrea (and Juan’s dying golden retriever, Tica). They spend their weekends exactly like they used to: chain-smoking pitis in Juan’s garage, listening to Juan’s latest DJ mix, and going out to pijo clubs around Madrid. But something’s not quite right. As sexual tensions emerge and old power dynamics get challenged, these third-culture-kids struggle to grow up, take responsibility, and find a version of reality to believe in.
“Critic’s Pick! Tejera’s play…rests on unraveling the uneasy dynamic between the three characters, and on the meticulousness with which the playwright renders the petty signifiers in their world…These acute character details create a rich triptych of the ails of a social milieu that’s precise in stroke, impressionistic in structure.”
—The New York Times.
“Danny Tejera’s cleverly unsettling play establishes itself at a frequency that will always be slightly out of phase with reality. Tejera has written something hyperspe-cific yet malleable and reflective of his characters’ particularly comfortable and alienating circumstances.” —New York Magazine.
“Tejera has done a wonderful job at crafting a realistic portrayal of 20-year-olds today, the best case I have seen on stage in quite some time…Tejera has unlocked a fascinating slice of life work that audiences can certainly sink their teeth into…Tejera is very much starting to make a name for himself as a new voice in the American theatre.” —Theatrely.
