Description

A full-length play.

Synopsis: What's in a name? Well, for starters, a name can define you. Or disguise you. Or hide you. Or defile you. Or change you. Introducing Cuarta, a twenty-something Peruvian woman. Cuarta means "the fourth daughter." Cuarta's three older sisters all have flower names. Yolanda which means violet. Orquídea which means orchid. Flor De Oro which means goldenrod. So something bad must have happened, right? Uh, did I forget to mention that the mother died giving birth to Cuarta? That's why there were no flowers for Cuarta. Just a number for a name for a bad luck girl. Cuarta goes to America and marries Atilano. Atilano is Spanish for Atilla the Hun. Cuarta believes in luck. Both kinds of luck. The good and the bad. And throughout the play, there are signs and symbols and personifications of its hold over her. There's the psychic. And the deck of cards. And the lucky numbers and the feng shui. All of which culminate in Cuarta and Atilano's going for all the marbles on a single spin of a roulette wheel.