Stage Review

References To Salvador Dali Make Me Hot

EW's GRADE
B

Army wife Gabriela (Rosie Perez) is driven mad — by the desert, isolation, and the looming violence of her husband Benito's (John Ortiz) job. As she and her fresh-from-the-field spouse circle, spit, and try to save their marriage, things get hallucinatory, fueled by a barrage of words, words, words. The verbiage in References To Salvador Dali Make Me Hot is cumbersome, but there's something hypnotic about Jose Rivera's play, which is like a dream — feverish, gaudy, and edged with cold menace.

Originally posted Apr 27, 2001 Published in issue #593 Apr 27, 2001 Order article reprints

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