Creating Conversations: A Fringe Artist Performance Event

A clock on stage counts down as Christopher introduces you to the elusive Ecuadorian Paul Bunyan of his childhood: his dad. Abel, an 80 year old immigrant man, makes his performance debut (yes, really) to help Christopher unpack their once estranged relationship via boxes & broken Spanglish in this comedic solo-ish show.
 
Through sharing true stories and the contents of boxes that once belonged to his dad, Christopher unravels the similarities and differences between he and Abel, a man he only knew from tall tales he heard as a kid. We travel with the odd couple throughout Queens, NY- from cramped bedrooms to panaderias, and under the roaring 7 train where they share heartfelt chats speaking different languages. As a visible clock ticks away, Abel tries to make up for lost time by teaching Christopher how to salsa, cheat at cards, and the correct pronunciations of an Ecuadorian swear word or two. Witness this duo figure out how two different Ecuadorian-Americans can talk about forgiveness, empathy and salvation while having no shared language between them, be that English, Spanish or even of fathers and sons.

Christopher Moncayo-Torres is an Ecuadorian-American playwright, teaching artist, and live storyteller, born and bred in Queens, NY. He is the co-founder of Fail Better NYC, a BIPOC-CUNY centered community of multi-disciplinary art-makers who safely experiment together with their unfinished, messes-in-progress through free workshops. He produced and hosted the monthly live storytelling-workshop show, Fail Better Storytime. He is also a Moth StorySLAM winner who has been featured on The Moth Radio Hour podcast and currently one of their instructors.

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