July 18, 2019
In the script, the list of murdered girls and women goes on for more than eight pages, in gruesome detail — so many rapes and shootings and stranglings, so many body parts chopped off.
This roll call of violence is the climax of Isaac Gomez’s one-woman play “the way she spoke,” at the Minetta Lane Theater, but he doesn’t require the performer to read it all the way through.
“She should stop when she needs to stop,” he writes in a merciful author’s note, and when Kate del Castillo reached that point the other night, her cheeks were wet with tears…read more
