"The scrappy Soho Rep is leaving Walkerspace, a tiny storefront conversion in Tribeca, its home since 1991. Several of the most important shows of the past decades premiered in the sixty-five-seat shoebox."
"To bid the cramped, magical old space farewell, the playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and the Cuban-born performance artist Alina Troyano have co-written the elegiac farce 'Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!'. It's a bantering conversation between two longtime friends..."
"For Jacobs-Jenkins, the show is a homecoming; his gleefully deconstructed melodrama 'An Octoroon,' produced at Soho Rep in 2014, made his reputation. Both he and Troyano are now on the theatre's board."
"Troyano plays herself, a pugnacious bantam with short hair dyed tennis-ball green... A secondary character describes him as 'a handsome African American millennial homosexual-with attitude,' and we sense the real Jacobs-Jenkins somewhere peeking at us, to see how we take it."
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