Puerto Rican nationalist's story to be retold with a drag twist in Moxie's 'Notes'

The play is being produced by Moxie Theatre, in association with Diversionary Theatre

Besides its marquee-crowding title, “Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members,” and being described as a drag fantasmagoria, Mara Vélez Meléndez’s play is a nod to history. Its protagonist, a trans woman named Lolita, is inspired by Puerto Rican nationalist Lolita Lebrón, who 70 years ago led an attack on the U.S. Capitol advocating independence for her nation, which had become an American commonwealth.

” In the play, its Lolita’s plans are altered by a queer Nuyorican receptionist who in dressing up like all the board members convinces her to act out her assassinations first with a prop gun. “This piece is also about the decolonizing identities and finding your own identities,” said Agosto. “To do that through the vehicle of drag? I was sold.

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