The Cunning Linguist is a one woman show written and performed by Monica Garrido Huerta.  It’s produced by the TCL Collective and Aluna Theatre and directed by Beatriz Pizano.  It’s playing at Factory Theatre until May 11th.  Monica (the character) is a lesbian living with her conservative but fairly affluent and conventionally Catholic family in a small town in Mexico.  She has a direct line to God, a sister who sings in a band in the town’s gay bar and a girlfriend but she’s not out to her family whose gaydar seems to have been made on the Friday afternoon shift.

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