I-Dj - Softcover

Gregg Barrios

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1601823274 ISBN 13: 9781601823274

Publisher: Hansen Publishing Group, LLC, 2015

Synopsis

I-DJ is a story of Warren Peace aka Amado Guerrero Paz, a gay Mexican American youth who finds his calling as a DJ. He spins the soundtrack of his life on the dance floor by night and by day in a gay send-up of Shakesqueer's Ham-a-lot set to a dub-step beat of ecstasy, tainted love, Rollerena and Herb Alpert. When a younger DJ challenges him to a musical standoff, their stories and their music collide. Only one will emerge triumphant.

I-DJ was a critical hit at the 2014 Frigid Fringe New York. NPR Theater critic Jeff Lunden hailed I-DJ as "original, witty and deeply moving."

About this title

About the Author

Gregg Barrios is an award-winning playwright, poet and journalist. His plays include Rancho Pancho, I-DJ and Ship of Fools. He has received a CTG-Mark Taper Fellowship, a Ford Foundation Grant, and an Artist Foundation Grant for his theater work. He is a 2013 USC Annenberg Getty Fellow, and serves on the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle. He was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters this year. He is the 2015 Fall Visiting Writer at Our Lady of the Lake University.

Review

A queering chronicle that might've been scripted by Michel Foucault, if he'd been a hustling Chicano raconteur DJ thespian channeling Shakespeare on Molly. I-DJ delivers an extraordinary musical performance! --John Phillip Santos, "Doing I-DJ"

Gregg Barrios I-DJ is a singular cultural mash-up. Using the indie label A&M Records, as well as Shakespeare's Hamlet, as reference points, the play chronicles the life of a gay Mexican-American DJ, who rechristens himself Warren Peace. While the music forms a soundtrack, Warren spins his narrative odyssey from the tumultuous sixties to the LA club scene of the 1980s and the beginnings of the AIDS crisis. Barrios melds Chicano, LGBT and LA history into an original, witty and deeply moving play. --Jeff Lunden, NPR

In Gregg Barrios' wonderful I-DJ a character says, "It takes a fairy to make something pretty." And this play is it; a bejeweled handbag bursting to the seams with so much love for its place, passion for its music, and genuine care for its characters. A very pretty thing indeed! --David Crabb, actor, playwright, memoirist of Bad Kid

A truly original and deeply moving tale of triumph. A story that melds LGBT, Chicano and LA history into one unique tour de force. --San Antonio Current, June 16, 2016

Edition details

• Publisher: Hansen Publishing Group, LLC
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1601823274
• ISBN 13: 9781601823274
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 72