The Sweetest Hangover

The Sweetest Hangover was Ricardo A. Bracho’s first full-length theatrical production. It premiered at the Brava Theatre in San Francisco’s Mission District in June 1997. The play is set in the early 1990s at the fictional Club Aztlantis part of the Bay Area’s booming underground house club scene. The AIDS pandemic is raging, with San Francisco as one of its epicenters. The collective that gathers together every weekend and makes up the family of Aztlantis is a polygendered motley crew. What unites this queer assembly and keeps the dedicated denizens coming back is a shared commitment to dancing all weekend long, taking copious amounts of drugs, having lots of furtive, illicit sex, and enjoying the f*ck out of life (while they can) in this House of Deseo created by and for the displaced youth of all diasporas.