Yunior falls for Oscar’s activist sister, Lola (Altagracia “ANova” Nova).
The play’s streamlined style is most effective in the first act (entirely focused on the college scenes) and less in the second, which suffers from awkward tonal shifts and attempts to pack a lot of emotional load into a short amount of time. He also simplified Díaz’s dense, flowery writing, which is filled with long digressions ranging from footnotes to entire chapters. But the adapter and director Marco Antonio Rodríguez abandoned that storytelling approach for a more straightforward, third-person one. Yunior is the novel’s narrator, so we tend to see Oscar through his eyes. “You talking Elvish from ‘Lord of the Rings,’” an incredulous Yunior tells Oscar, who promptly corrects him: “Actually, it’s Sindarin.” (The production is in Spanish, with English supertitles.) At first, he is stunned by his new roommate’s commitment to his passions. Yunior (Mario Peguero, casually confident), on the other hand, is a cocky ladies’ man with worldly tastes - he likes to “partake in a little smoke,” for example.
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