***Winner of the New American Voices National Playwriting Award***

AZTEC PIRATES, A LATINX FANTASIA ON NATIONAL THEMES  PARTS ONE AND TWO

Across borders and allegiances this two part play takes you on a harrowing and disturbing adventure that examines life for Latinx people caught between embracing their roots and conforming to the mob mentality of a Trump-era USA.

Aztec Pirates is a study of the American Vendido; the controversial trope assigned to LatinX people who betray their own race. In the chaotic times of a Trump led America it is shocking to many of us to find that many of our family members support a leader who has villainized us as a people and uses us as a scapegoat to gain financial and political power. Many of us have found ourselves caught between our beliefs, our families, and our identities wondering where we stand in America’s future - and that is the central theme that encompasses this play. Furthermore as the American melting pot continues to turn our multitude of cultures into a uniculture we find ourselves grasping with the heavy thought that had Spaniards not colonized the Native American peoples we would not exist. We are both the conquered and the conqueror and in knowing that, do we all become Vendidos?

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