FLAGSTAFF — NAU Theater is staging Luis Valdez’s very short (and hilarious!) Latino play, “Los vendidos” in the Studio Theater. It’s being paired with another short play (not Latino), Harold Pinter’s “The Dumbwaiter.”
Los Vendidos was first staged by El Teatro Campesino in 1967. The play is set in Honest Sancho’s Used Mexican Lot and Mexican Curio Shop. Miss Jiménez, who represents the governor’s office, is there to see if she can find a “Mexican type” for the governor’s gala event. Sancho and Miss Jiménez tour the shop as he demonstrates the “floor models” such as farm worker, Mexican revolutionary, pachuco, lowrider and none are acceptable until she is introduced to the newest model, “fresh, clean Mexican American” in a business suit and glasses. Miss Jiménez purchases the automated floor model and the two drive off to attend the Governor’s event. In the silence following her exit, what will happen?
The plays open Thursday, Feb. 26th at 7:30 pm and run through Sunday, March 1.
Tickets are available here:
https://nautickets.universitytickets.com/w/default.aspx?cid=169&PageNumber=1