Trafficking In Broken Hearts - Softcover

Sanchez, Edwin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0881454982 ISBN 13: 9780881454987

Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing, Incorporated, 2019

Synopsis

When Papo, a tough-talking Puerto Rican hustler from the Bronx, meets Brian, a frightened young lawyer from the Midwest, Papo begins to glimpse the possibility of a romantic escape from his life on the streets. At the same time, Bobby, a 17-year-old runaway who has been repeatedly raped by his older brother, offers to take care of Papo and moves in with him in his fleabag hotel room. It is then when Papo suddenly finds his defenses melting and his heart torn in two directions. TRAFFICKING IN BROKEN HEARTS is a gritty, urban love story.“Playwright Edwin Sanchez makes a promising New York debut with TRAFFICKING IN BROKEN HEARTS, a grim, streetwise and bracingly compassionate work ... he convinces with the honesty of his writing and a canny, thoughtful grasp of his trio of characters. The playwright does an especially effective job in penning the gray shades of his characters ...” —Greg Evans, Variety

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Review:

The heft of TRAFFICKING IN BROKEN HEARTS owes as much to its compassion as to its grit, of which there is plenty. Edwin Sanchez's searing three-hander about Times Square hustlers… TRAFFICKING charts its fragmented course around 42nd Street in the days before Rudy Giuliani and Disney. It concerns jaded Papo, a streetwise Puerto Rican from the Bronx, on the stroll since his teens. After virginal lawyer Brian puts the tentative moves on Papo, TRAFFICKING appears to be a roundelay between opportunist and closet case. Enter pathological Bobby, a 17-year-old runaway from institutionalization and fraternal abuse. Spurred by Sanchez's pungent, well-observed dialogue, the triangle that evolves is graphic yet artful, often wickedly funny and finally quite moving. --David C Nichols, Los Angeles Times

Playwright Edwin Sanchez makes a promising New York debut with TRAFFICKING IN BROKEN HEARTS, a grim, streetwise and bracingly compassionate work. ...he convinces with the honesty of his writing and a canny, thoughtful grasp of his trio of characters. The playwright does an especially effective job in penning the gray shades of his characters. --Greg Evans, Variety

Playwright Edwin Sanchez makes a promising New York debut with TRAFFICKING IN BROKEN HEARTS, a grim, streetwise and bracingly compassionate work. ...he convinces with the honesty of his writing and a canny, thoughtful grasp of his trio of characters. The playwright does an especially effective job in penning the gray shades of his characters. --Greg Evans, Variety

About this edition

• Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing, Incorporated
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0881454982
• ISBN 13: 9780881454987
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 62