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Boston: Cuban currents.(FRONT and CENTER)(Theater Review)

American Theatre,  November, 2004  by Campbell, Karen

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CUBAN-AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHT/performer Melinda Lopez may have grown up in the chill winds of New England snow and Yankee stoicism, but every so often the warm breezes of her parents' native country blew through her life. She vividly recalls family events and vacations with "loud, dark dancing people, beautiful and so lively."

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"I was really in love with them," Lopez adds. "My aunts would dress up in their wigs, and my mother would smoke and drink big goblets of wine, and they'd throw each other in the pool. It was raucous, and ...

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