“Azul” is the story Yadra, an aging New York woman battling Alzheimer’s disease who finds herself wrapped up in her childhood memories of leaving her country and her beloved aunt behind in Fidel Castro’s Cuba. Although Quintana, who goes by the name CQ, said the play is not an autobiographical tale of her family and their immigration from Cuba long ago, it does touch on subjects close to her heart. That planted the seed for “Azul,” an all-female memory play set in both New York and Cuba that make its West Coast premiere this month at Diversionary Theatre. While debuting a play at a Latinx theater festival in Chicago, she began speaking with an actor friend about how few of the festival’s plays told the stories of lesbian women, particularly lesbian women of color. But several years ago, the queer Cuban-American playwright realized something was missing in her scripts, and she wanted to do something about it. Quintana has written nearly a dozen plays.
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