Chicano Punk Fans Finally Have ‘Día Y Noche,’ a Play to Rock Out To
When he was in high school in the 1980s, David Anzuelo remembers seeing the now legendary punk gods, The Clash, at a concert at the local university in his hometown of El Paso. “INXS opened for them,” he recalled to The Daily Beast. “The audience was all pissed off because they couldn’t rip out the seats.”
Over 30 years later, Anzuelo is channeling that same punk rock rage in his new off-broadway debut play, Día Y Noche, which opens March 26 at 59E59 Theater as part of Labyrinth Theater Company’s 30th anniversary season.
A semi-autobiographical tale set to the music of Black Flag, Joan Jett, and more, the play tracks Danny and Martin, two young music lovers who feel like outsiders, as they navigate their adolescence in 1984 El Paso. Drugs, sex, and rock and roll, of course, are all featured heavily.