just checked out “it could be worse,” and yeah, it could have been worse. but it could have been better. the acting was great. three dynamic women putting a lot of life into the roles. and the writing was pretty good. you really did feel like you were reading someone’s blog, which was the premise for the play.

but there were some serious race issues in the play. a couple scenes in this play consisted of the characters complaining about various aspects of particular latino subcultures. mocking latino men, “tito” and his fellow bike riding, pants sagging friends were portrayed as taco bell lovin, turf war fighting, chest pounding apes. this is the aspect of latino life in the central valley the writer chose to write about. according to her play gang bangin is the only thing she sees latinos do in the cv.

if the writer doesn’t understand a particular subculture, one racially different from her own, there are better ways to put it out there. and of all the topics she could have chosen to write about regarding the diversity of the cv, monosyllabic gang bangin apes was what resonated with her.

like i said, she is a good writer. other than the race issue the play was funny. but folks putting their work out their ought to be thinking about the connatations of the issues and concepts they choose to present, particularly when mocking other groups.

of all the rogue performances we coulda put our money to we chose hers. a satire on life in the cv, what could be better? but no, we were pretty disappointed. and pretty uncomfortable. not something i expected from the rogue.