Metropolitan Playhouse
Virtual Playhouse
Presents
Evening One of East Side Stories: Arrivals

A Screened Reading
of

COLA’O
Written by PALOMA SIERRA

Directed by GLORIA ZELAYA

Featuring
JORGE LUIS BERRIOS & YAZMIN MORALES VICENTE

Music by PEDRO EMANUEL FRANCO FRATICELLI

www.metropolitanplayhouse.org/virtualplayhouse

June 26, 2020, 8 p.m.


A kitchen in the lower East Side. Alex makes coffee for herself and Rene’. For her, a lovely café con leche with three sugars. Rene` shudders and demands “No milk for me! No sugar! Act like a true Latina!” Alex barely blinks. What does coffee have to do with race? He insists that she is watering-down her heritage by not drinking strong, black coffee, Puerto Rican coffee. Not some diluted mess.

She calmly points to the fact that they are already blended. Blended historically with white Spanish and Africans and island natives. Now America blends into our lives. Rene` calls a truce. What is coffee compared to his obvious, blended love of sweet Alex.

-Karen D’Onofrio-