Golden Tongues: Donde comen dos, comen tres

Adapted from Lope de Vega’s El perro del hortelano

by abe zapata jr.

About the play

Set in Los Angeles during the 1940s, this adaptation takes Lope de Vega’s playful and mischievous Golden Age comedy and infuses it with Mexican-American tradition. Donde comen dos, comen tres shows life on a family farm turned upside down after its owner passes away.

Danna, who inherits the farm, is not quite sure what she wants from life. When her childhood best friend, Marcia, arrives to help her settle the estate and begins a relationship with farmhand Guillermo, Danna decides she must break them up. Will her cunning plans, rooted in love and jealousy, tear them apart? Will Danna’s own desire find a place?

Golden Tongues is a collaboration between Diversifying the Classics and Playwrights’ Arena. Since 2013, the Golden Tongues initiative has commissioned and staged new adaptations in English of Hispanic classical plays by Los Angeles playwrights.

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Donde comen dos, comen tres will be a staged reading in English.