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'Se Llama Cristina' offers a sentimental story beneath a gritty exterior
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Sarah Nina Hayon and Sean San José in Se Llama Cristina
PHOTO BY JENNIFER REILEY
In the end, however, the stakes never feel high or real, despite an almost too-insistent ladling on of gory detail, foul language, and teeth bearing. Like the impetuous verse scrawled on the back of Cristina's sonogram image by her wannabe-writer father, Se Llama Cristina is ultimately a passionate poem to the deliverance that a child can offer her parents. But it's scribbled too hastily and self-consciously in the hand of a playwright whose best instincts balk at the maudlin habit it encourages. *
SE LLAMA CRISTINA
Wed/13-Sat/16, 8pm (also Wed/13, 2:30pm); Sun/17, 2:30pm, $22-60
Magic Theatre
Fort Mason Center, SF
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