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Bicultural Comedy In 2020 America: How One Chicano Playwright Creates It

THEATRE Posted: January 10, 2020 12:01 pm

Herbert Sigüenza, a founding member of the Chicano sketch company Culture Clash and playwright-in-residence at San Diego Rep (which premiered his latest script, Bad Hombres/Good Wives) talks to dramaturg Matthew McMahan about “the unique dynamics of bicultural comedy. He frames the comic writer as a type of diplomat whose plays yoke together divergent ideas, jokes, characters, and languages, while managing to get a diverse group of people to laugh at it all the same.” – HowlRound

THEATRE Published: 01.05.20, sj

Read the story in HowlRound Published: 01.05.20, sj

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