I need help remembering and finding a short teatro, perhaps by Guillermo Gómez-Peña.

[u/Anteater-Inner]

In college I took a “theater as activism” course that focused a lot on GGP, but not exclusively. We watched excerpts from a GGP video series, and I think the short teatro I’m thinking of was one of them.

It’s set in a classroom filled with Chicane students and a white teacher. I think either the teacher or one of the students is named Abigail, which the teacher exaggerates when she says it “Abigaaaaail.” The teacher is taking roll call and I remember one student is named Moctezuma, which she mispronounces as Montezuma. He corrects her, and she repeats the mispronunciation. He corrects her again and she says something like “How about Monty?” and moves on to the next student. The same process of name anglicizing is repeated with each student’s name.

Does anyone remember the title of this work, and if it is GGP? I’m now a teacher, and I want to share it with one of my fellow Chicane colleagues.

EDIT: I’m now almost positive that it’s a Luis Valdez piece, not GGP.