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, I waited for the inevitable chancla punchline to land like a ... well, chancla: all too obvious, with a dull thud to the head.Instead, the scene turned into a set piece of hilarious physicality, with Alma and her petulant daughter fighting over the chancla in a physical struggle that devolves into a fusion of lucha libre and absurdist contemporary ballet. U.S. Latino narratives
: the story of an epic migration, of the struggles between the immigrant generation and the one that was born here, of the ways in which value systems born in Latin America are adapted to the U.S. experience, of the conflict between what a parent desires for a child versus what that child desires for themselves.
In Benne’s hands, these themes are never mere archetypes but part of flesh-and-blood characters full of ambivalence and contradiction, with great love for one another but also great frustration. There are moments of magic too: a television that comes to life as a mechanicaland curious happenings that serve as portents of the future this charming mother-daughter team face.
Benne is originally from the Los Angeles area and has lived in the Midwest and the Pacific Northwest. He is young — just 34 and currently in the process of completing his master’s degree at the Yale School of Drama — but his work has already been produced in theaters around the country.
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