I-DJ

by Gregg Barrios, John Phillip Santos (Introduction)

Overview

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."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940158074073
Publisher:	Hansen Publishing Group, LLC
Publication date:	12/08/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	70
File size:	640 KB

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.

Editorial Reviews

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.

NPR - Jeff Lunden

Saw my first four FRIGID New York shows today. The best production of the day was I-DJ, the story of a gay Mexican-American DJ from his childhood through the AIDS crisis, using the music of A&M Records. Amazing story, direction, and acting.

Stage Buzz - Byrne Harrison

I-DJ is a runaway streetcar of emotion, poetry, and history, helmed by the indomitable Rick Sanchez. Telling the story of Warren Peace, the dynamic language and extreme circumstances of Warren's wild life surprise, move, and discomfit. I-DJ is a dynamic play told with imagination and vibrant language.

The Easy - Joseph Samuel Wright