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THE TEXAS TRINITY Starting with Talk of the Town (1992), and continuing with The Bible Belt and Other Accessories (1993) and Love in the Time of College (1994), Bonin-Rodriguez examined in a serialized, narrative form the hilarious and poignant coming-of-age and coming out of John Roy Hobson, the irrepressible small-town sissy boy and Dairy Queen worker extraordinaire on the road to accomplishment and truth. "Bonin-Rodriguez has composed a major work of gay performance art that both empowers and entertains…the power of his art stretches all boundaries and labels and is accessible to all." — The Texas Triangle Talk of the Town introduces Johnny, 15, the Judds fan, who finds love, lust and Lady Bird Johnson at the local Dairy Queen. |
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"Bonin-Rodriguez tears onto the stage like a bright pink Corvette. He's flashy, he's energetic, he's swishy and he's a real treat to watch." — Bay Area Reporter (Click here for excerpt from Talk of the Town) In The Bible Belt and Other Accessories, Johnny joins forces with his African-American Home-Economics teacher, Ms. Dove, and his Chicana feminist best friend, Delinda Domingo, to create a ragtag team of defiance and accomplishment. Johnny creates a fashion weapon - the actual belt of bibles - and together they confront a conservative religious movement that has penetrated and infected their school. "Yet, perhaps most admirable is the apparent lack of bitterness or disdain for even the most narrow-minded of his characters. It is as if Bonin-Rodriguez would rather emphasize our most absurd contradictions - full of human frailty - and let the audience decide whether to laugh or cry." — The Desert Sun (Click here for excerpt from The Bible Belt) Love in the Time of College is the darkest of the three. John leaves Cedar Springs on a Greyhound bound for the University of Texas at Austin, where he learns that even in the city one can hear the call of the wild. "Most effective are the reflective passages of extraordinary poetic clarity that weave the disparate fragments of episodic details into a summing-up of life processes." — LA Times (Click here for excerpt from Love in the Time of College) |
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