Review: Chicho is a calling card for the many talents of rising theatre star Augusto Bitter GlobeArts
Augusto Bitter – an actor with a wiry body, expressive face and copious quantities of that hard-to-entirely-explain It-factor known as stage presence – has risen in stature in the Toronto theatre world in an astonishingly quick fashion.
Wearing a white polo shirt and conservative slacks, one Chicho grapples, somewhat earnestly, with what it means to be gay and Catholic, to be Venezuelan and Canadian, to speak Spanish and English and, sometimes, express himself most fully in Spanglish. “Name our current president,” he asks the audience as part of a pop quiz about his country of birth. “Trick question!”are those that most resemble what you might find in a traditional solo show, one that might be classified as an “identity play”.
With the white lover, Chicho worries about the postcolonial power games he might be playing in bed; with the brown lover, he worries that the two have been sexually assimilated. “Do I know how to be gay in Spanish?” he asks.
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