In “Espejos: Clean,” now in a Capital Stage Company production, two women come from vastly different worlds.
Adriana manages housekeeping at a Cancún resort, ensuring the pillows are “perfectly plump and symmetrical,” never letting her coworkers see her drink or even wear her hair down.
Sarah is a middle-class white lady visiting from Vancouver as a maid of honor in a wedding where she’s the only one who can see past the fake tan lines and the veiled racism.
But they have three things in common: They both have childhood trauma, they’re both their families’ black sheep, and they both have a crisis the same stormy night.
Christine Quintana’s script, performed bilingually with supertitles, asks what it might take for these women — separated by class, ethnicity and language — to connect. What if they run off together? What if they take justice into their own hands and go “Thelma and Louise” on the world?
Or what if an attempt at kindness is just “a familiar kind of violence,” but it changes something all the same?