Pro tip for aspiring playwrights: If you want success, write something that purports to skewer the American mythos but actually doesn’t—or at least not in ways that might create discomfort in the bourgeois theatergoing audience you’ll need if you want to make it big.
True enough, but Diaz is content to otherize the xenophobic, racist impulses in our national psyche, making clear demarcations between right-thinking and wrong-thinking characters, flattering rather than challenging (or, God forbid, implicating) his audience. Director Jeremy Aluma’s relentlessly broad approach in this Red Theater remount doesn’t help. v
Through 9/16: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 4 PM; also Mon 8/28, 8 PM (closed captions) 1802 W. Berenice 773-347-1350redtheater.org $40 suggested donation
