Choke at GALA Hispanic Theatre

Choke

GALA Hispanic Theatre
3333 14th Street, NW Washington

Choke tells the story of Esperanza Guerrero who, along with her husband, Gonzalo, have worked all their lives to provide opportunities to their daughter, Cassandra, a professional who now lives in New York. But a family medical crisis unleashes intergenerational conflict in the Guerrero family that mirrors the battle that the family has to fight against a corporation. With humor, this work portrays today's American society from the perspective of one of the most exciting young playwrights of the Latino community, the Californian Emilio Infante.

Thru - May 18, 2025

Thursdays: 8:00pm

Fridays: 8:00pm

Saturdays: 8:00pm

Sundays: 2:00pm

Show Type: Comedy/Drama

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Washington Post - Recommended

"...Staged in Spanish with supertitles and intermittent English, "Choke" investigates the wounds we inflict upon ourselves, and the crushing realization - or devastating denial - that comes with facing long-gestating consequences. Infante also weaves in humane observations about the indignities many blue-collar workers endure in the name of building a life, and the plight of an existence too often dictated by the whims of government assistance."

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- Thomas Floyd

DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

"...It's not often that we find a new work that successfully tackles so much socio-dynamic territory and is so topically relevant, universal, and geographically germane all at once. Directed by Gustavo Ott with fully expressed characters living in an environmental powder keg, Choke is a look at a family helping us come to grips with aspects of who we are and every community's reckoning with its own becoming."

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- Debbie Minter Jackson

MetroWeekly - Recommended

"...It happens even in the best families. Gustavo Guerrero, proud paterfamilias of Emilio T. Infante's poignant Choke: Sucede Hasta en las Mejores Familias, invokes the phrase practically in jest, but he's not joking or making coded reference to his lesbian daughter Cassandra and her wife Zulema."

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- Andre Hereford

MD Theatre Guide - Highly Recommended

"...Passion, raw emotion, and utter frustration need no translation in GALA Hispanic Theatre's latest production, "Choke, Or, SUCEDE HASTA EN LAS MEJORES FAMILIAS." The actors pour their hearts into these roles, and as a result, the intensity is palpable. Confronting the issue of aging parents and environmental disasters, "Choke's" only struggle is with how to sometimes contain the abundance of emotionality that flows through Emilio Infante's electrifying play."

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- Anne Valentino

BroadwayWorld - Recommended

"...What makes it come alive on stage are some uniformly strong performances, from Gerardo Ortiz Gonzalez as the prideful paterfamilias, who limps along with an oxygen machine when he's not raging against change; to Mar?a del Mar Rodr?guez , who keeps the crumbling household together the best she can while stoically hiding her own secrets."

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- Roger Catlin

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Choke Reviews

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DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

MetroWeekly - Recommended

MD Theatre Guide - Highly Recommended

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