Review: Undermain Theatre’s ‘The Way She Spoke’
Gigi Cervantes in Undermain Theatre’s ‘The Way She Spoke.’ (Courtesy photo by Rob Menzel) Undermain Theatre concludes its season with queer playwright Isaac Gomez’s The Way She Spoke which opened last weekend.
Gomez’s story is an emotional ride that examines the epidemic of missing and murdered women in Juarez, Mexico. The one-actor play stars Gigi Cervantes as simply The Actress and is directed by Blake Hackler.
With that premise already, it’s easy to expect a heavy story, but that doesn’t prepare for Gomez’s in-your-face story that was cleverly centered on their experience writing the play.
In Sunday’s matinee, The Actress walks onstage as a frustrated actor coming in from a disappointing audition. She “talks” to an invisible Gomez who asked her to read their new play.
