Hierba Mala Nunca Muere
Opening Night: March 6, 2015
Closing: June 21, 2015
Theater: Repertorio Español
Disguised as a blond Russian, Nataly, a young nurse is sent as an undercover assassin to finish off one of history’s longest reining leaders. Though extreme old age has done most of the job for her, she and her assistant Patín find that ‘el comandante’ is harder to finish off than either of them ever imagined. A hysterical comedy of epic, over the top proportions, “Hierba Mala Nunca Muere” is a hilarious look at what happens when a dictator from another era lives well past his prime in denial of a changing world.
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March 19, 2015
The old bird is understandably confused. When he was a boy, Havana was sometimes called the Paris of the Caribbean. He thought he had put an end to that capitalist decadence, but now that he’s in his late 80s, some guy is suddenly trying to open Cuba back up again. And the guy is black. That is just one of the threads that make up the antic “Hierba Mala Nunca Muere” (“Weeds Just Won’t Die”), a topical deathbed farce receiving its world premiere at Repertorio Español. The old bird is Fidel Castro, and the thorn in his increasingly feeble side is President Obama, whose efforts to normalize relations have his head spinning. It’s spinning so much, in fact, that he barely realizes two people in his hospital room are debating how best to kill him.
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