Casa Matriz (1991, MaTRIX, Inc.), a full length one-act play, depicts a “daughter,” Gloria, who hires a “mother” from an agency specializing in that service. The two women rehearse a series of roles. They range from the traditional long-suffering mother so popular in Latin American literature, to the professional mother who travels around the world; from the cold, rejecting mother, to the transgressive one who vies with her daughter for the lesbian lover. Each “mother,” of course, elicits a different “daughter,” and Gloria undergoes a series of transformations as she pouts, demands satisfaction, cries, begs for love, and orders the substitute mother to give her money back. Read the transcript

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