El Frustrado Verb - Part 2 (3213)

The story continues in Newark, New Jersey. The new migrants from Puerto Rico find work in a restaurant as dish washers. Pedro, the main character, sends for his wife, Juana. They get married at Saint Patrick’s Church and hold the wedding reception on the roof of their building because nothing else was available. Soon they realize that other Puerto Ricans celebrate birthdays and “fiestas” on roof tops across the neighborhood. The play illustrates how life was in the 1950s and how family values, taught by grandparents in the olden days, are often the untapped solutions to the daily frustrations of the modern world.