In Parrots at the Pagoda, Life and Death Transform

HowlRound Theatre Commons: Here is a performance of Parrots at the Pagoda, a new play with music, at Pregones/PRTT. Here is also the dreamlike, elusive “imagined afterworld” in which Jorge B. Merced’s story takes place. Now is a rainy evening in late May, toward the end of the show’s run. Now is also the past, present, and future—moments of reflection on the life of Puerto Rican drag performer Johnny Rodríguez (1912-1997).