LOS YUGOSLAVOS

Los yugoslavos begins when a waiter overhears a conversation between a customer and asks him to speak with his wife. The main characters are two men who exchange words and two women who exchange maps. None of them ever stepped foot in the country once called Yugoslavia. The title refers to a place where perhaps people gathered who shared the common experience of being born in a place that no longer exists.

Juan Mayorga, the author and director of the play, explains the following: “My grandfather had a bar, and every night he would come home telling stories he had just lived with his customers. I suppose that’s where my desire to write this play was born. *Los yugoslavos* is about one of the issues that concerns me most: what we do with words and what words do to us. There are many reasons why, since I wrote it, I wanted to bring Los yugoslavos to the stage. The most important one: I care about its characters.”