When he was in high school in the 1980s, David Anzuelo remembers seeing the now legendary punk gods, The Clash, at a concert at the local university in his hometown of El Paso: “INXS opened for them.”
and is central to the play. “My story is not an immigration story,” Anzuelo says. “It’s the story of navigation of dual identity…the reclamation of language and history.”protagonist Danny, Anzuelo’s avatar, recounts to his new friend, Martin, who is Black and deeply in the closet, how an older Anglo woman once called him a “dirty Mexican” when he was only 4 years old. “I never saw that woman again,” he says. “But I’ll remember her for the rest of my life.
After graduating, Anzuelo moved to New York City in 1989 where he quickly got work as an Elvis impersonator for a music and dance review that toured the New England carnival circuit. “We opened for Reba McIntire,” he said proudly, before adding a caveat. “Other times we opened for dancing donkeys.”
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