“I will create this place where you can be who you’ve always wanted to be... where you and I have become the same person. This moment of greatness, I will create it. When the performance ends. And life begins.”
(“Crearé un lugar donde podrás ser quien siempre has querido ser…donde tú y yo seremos un solo ser. Este momento de grandeza, lo habré de crear. Cuando termina la actuación… y comienza la vida.”)
Step into the world of Encore! Encore! as it unveils the captivating tapestry of Santo Domingo in the early 1980s. In the heart of this evocative tale lies the infamous Hotel Cristóbal, where the “biz” of sex work unfolds. Within this world of johns and hustlers, an absent presence seems to orchestrate all interactions, blurring the lines between the stage and real life…
“This is Elias Miguel Muñoz’s greatest novelistic performance.”
—Lilian Manzor, Ph.D., Author of Marginality Beyond Return: US Cuban Performances During the 1980s and 1990s
“Part novel, part drama, all poetry, Encore! Encore! hooks the reader and doesn’t let go…”
—Ylce Irizarry, Ph.D., Author of Chicana/o and Latina/o Fiction: The New Memory of Latinidad
