REPRESENTA! Bilingual Theater For the Hip-Hop Generation

Written and Performed by Paul S. Flores and Julio Cardenas

Developed and Directed by Danny Hoch

Saturday May 16, 2009

8:30pm

Here Arts Center 

145 6th Ave (btw Spring & Broome) enter on Dominick

New York, New York

TIX: http://www.here.org

Call 212-352-3101

REPRESENTA! chronicles what happens when Chicano spoken word poet Flores and Cuban rapper Cardenas meet in Cuba at the Havana Hip-Hop Festival. Despite an atmosphere laden with the stereotypes and anxieties that exist between North Americans and Cubans, the two artists develop a friendship. But their relationship, ideals and dreams are challenged when Cardenas decides to stay in the U.S. while on tour in New York City immediately after 9/11. REPRESENTA! is a new bilingual play for the hip hop generation that combines spoken-word poetry with character portrayals that are simultaneously hilariously entertaining and provocative. REPRESENTA! explores global themes; youth culture, immigration, terrorism, Pan-Latino identity with comedy and parody.  Presented with excellent English supertitles for non-Spanish speakers interested in learning more about contemporary Cuban culture.