cover photo by Peter Cunningham

this collection contains three full-length plays:

CLEAN

FLOOR SHOW: DONA SOL AND HER TRAINED DOG

TRAFFICKING IN BROKEN HEARTS

CLEAN: 

   “The forms of love that dare not speak their names are pretty scarce in this age of the tabloid talk shows. But that hasn't stopped Edwin Sanchez, a new playwright of tremendous emotional conviction...
   How do you feel, for example, about a thirty year-old Roman Catholic priest in love with a ten year-old boy? The relationship—which, it should probably be noted right away, is never consummated—is at the center of CLEAN....
   Mr Sanchez is a wide-eyed, unregenerate romantic who uses what he describes as `impossible' relationships to consider and celebrate the arbitrariness of love.
   In a sense, the play is like a contemporary MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM in which the passion-drunk characters, rather than being sorted into socially acceptable pairs, learn to live in a world ruled by a blind Cupid. It is a theme Mr Sanchez explored in TRAFFICKING IN BROKEN HEARTS, an unsettling drama about a doomed gay triangle....
   He is, in other words, a playwright to watch closely.”
Ben Brantley, The New York Times

originally produced by Hartford Stage

5 M, 1 F

FLOOR SHOW: DONA SOL AND HER TRAINED DOG:

Reality and fantasy collide as a son—just out of a mental institution—and his mother—a former hooker, now a fortune teller—battle for the truth regarding the death of a daughter who may never have existed.

originally produced by Latino Chicago

4 M, 4 F

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TRAFFICKING IN BROKEN HEARTS:

   “Playwright Edwin Sanchez makes a promising New York debut with TRAFFICKING IN BROKEN HEARTS, a grim, streetwise and bracingly compassionate work....
   ...he convinces with the honesty of his writing and a canny, thoughtful grasp of his trio of characters.
   The playwright does an especially effective job in penning the gray shades of his characters....”
Greg Evans, Variety

originally produced by the Atlantic Theater Company, New York

3 M

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Plays By Edwin Sanchez

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