About the Project

Winner of:

Hollywood Fringe Scholarship 2024

Hollywood Fringe Award for Best Two Person Show 2024

Eastwood Independent Theatre Award 2024 (Best of Venue)

Denver Fringe Festival Exchange Award 2024

Nominated:

Top of the Hollywood Fringe Award 2024

Hollywood Fringe Award for World Premiere 2024

Adelaide Fringe Exchange Award 2024, Presented by Adelaide Fringe Festival 

A clock counts down as Christopher rushes to make up for lost time with Abel, his once estranged, 80-year–old Ecuadorian father. Making his performance debut (yes, really), Abel will help Christopher unpack their messy relationship throughout this comedic solo-ish show filled with true stories, too many boxes and belated bonding. Despite their language barrier, can this father and son duo talk forgiveness, empathy and actually understand one another before time runs out?

Through the contents of boxes that once belonged to his dad, Christopher unravels the similarities and differences between him and Abel, a man he only knew from tall tales he heard as a kid. We travel with the odd couple throughout Queens, NY- from cramped bedrooms to panaderias under the roaring 7 train where they share heartfelt chats speaking different languages. As a visible clock ticks away, Abel tries to teach Christopher a few things before it’s too late- how to salsa, cheat at cards and the correct pronunciations of an Ecuadorian swear word or two. Can these two different Ecuadorian-Americans talk in front of a live audience while having no shared language between them, be that English, Spanish or even of fathers and sons?

Content Warning: 

-Brief discussion of self harm/suicide ideation 

-Brief reenactment of physical violence