Culture Clash

Salsamundo Night at the Arena Stage

RADIO MAMBO

Starring

CULTURE CLASH

Salsamundo is organizing a night of theater at the Arena Stage on Tuesday, December 7, 1999 at 7:30 pm. The play entitled Radio Mambo stars Culture Clash, a three-man team of comic actors. The New York Times calls Culture Clash "three wildly imaginative talents with the energy and comic verve of seasoned vaudevillians."

Radio Mambo: Culture Clash Invades Miami is a mix of vignettes based on interviews conducted in the richly diverse, urban Miami community. It examines reactions to issues such as Hurricane Andrew, urban renewal, immigration and where to get a plate of arroz con pollo served by a six-foot drag queen.

Culture Clash, three West Coast Chicano/Latinos (a Mexican American and two Salvadorans) are from Los Angeles. They are celebrating 15 years of delivering intelligent and culturally relative comedy to people across the nation.

In 1994, the Miami Light Project invited the trio to Miami to perform its show, A Bowl of Beings. Backed by a Rockefeller grant, the Miami Light Project asked Culture Clash to create a show about Miami, and Radio Mambo was born. To research Radio Mambo, Culture Clash interviewed individuals ranging from Cuban immigrants to environmentalists, to the Jewish old guard, and blended their stories into a portrait of Miami life.

Arena Stage has commissioned Culture Clash to develop a new show about Washington, DC. While in town performing Radio Mambo, the group will conduct 40-60 interviews with a wide variety of Washingtonians. Much as they did in Miami, Culture Clash’s members will "invade" the District to discover what issues Washingtonians face every day and how, as a community, we respond to those issues and to each other. The show is slated to be performed at Arena Stage during the 2001-2002 season.

Drama-Logue says Radio Mambo "has it all: laughs, poignancy, rich characterization, political complexity and provocative social perspectives." And Vibe magazine declares, "[Culture Clash] delivers cutting social satire, often with an unpredictable lyrical twist." The troupe—Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas and Herbert Siguenza—has created several works for the stage, including Nuyorican Stories, Radio Mambo, Bordertown: Culture Clash in San Diego/Tijuana, The Birds, The Mission, Carpa Clash and A Bowl of Beings, to name a few.

Radio Mambo will be performed through January 2 in the Kreeger Theater. The regular price of $40.00 for orchestra seats is reduced to $26.00 for our group.

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