Waiting for Godínez

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By the author of Chicano Frankenstein , this is "Waiting for Godot" in a modern retelling with Borderlands immigration and ICE in the mix. Waiting for Godínez has been workshopped in Los Angeles and New York, had a world premiere in Sacramento, California, and is being shopped to Los Angeles, Arizona, and New Mexico stages. Olivas's extraordinary reimagining of a classic play lays bare the destructive and brutalizing effects of the United States' anti-immigration policy on undocumented immigrants and their families. In Waiting for Godínez , the forever-waiting characters of Estragon and Vladimir are embodied in Jesús and Isabel, two Mexican friends living in the States. Each night Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents kidnap Jesús and throw him into a cage intending to deport him. But the agents forget to lock the cage, so Jesús escapes and makes his way back to Isabel as they wait for the mysterious Godínez in a city