When was the last time you talked to your grandma? Or grandpa? I talked to my last surviving grandparent, my abuelo Paco, on father’s day. The conversation was good, but it was kind of short, we talked about the weather. Lots of “chéveres” and “muy biens” and “hope to see you soons”.
It depends on the family, obviously, but it can be hard to keep conversations flowing between generations of a family, especially in immigrant families, where each generation has a different experience with language, culture, and identity.
My guest this week, Jenny Sanchez, found sort of a workaround, a loophole to get stories out of her Mexican grandparents and create a space to explore them for herself in a play she wrote called Abue!. We talk about our grandparents, producing work in Spanish, and the importance of latinx representation in theater. Here it is.
