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'Don't Eat the Mangos' wins 2021 Will Glickman Award


David Templeton s Galatea, which was to premiere at Spreckels Performing Arts Center, nabs honorable mention.
Chronicle Staff Report April 16, 2021Updated: April 16, 2021, 7:21 pm
Yetta Gottesman (left) and Elena Estér in “Don’t Eat the Mangos” at Magic Theatre. Photo: Jennifer Reiley, Magic Theatre
“Don’t Eat the Mangos,” Ricardo Pérez González’s play produced at the Magic Theatre in 2020, won the 2021 Will Glickman Award for best play to premiere in the Bay Area last year.
Theatre Bay Area, the nonprofit that administers the award with funding from the Will Glickman Foundation, announced the winner Friday, April 16.
“Mangos,” which centers on a Puerto Rican family with three grown sisters, drives toward the revelation of a horrible secret. Reviewing the show with The Chronicle’s top rating, theater critic Lily Janiak wrote that the show’s honesty “is so unsparing it’s contagious: When such truth is before you, you c ....

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