Javier Torre’s Spanish theater class gave a one hour performance May 14 featuring three short plays about Mexico City.

The first play portrayed two sisters who were operating an illegal shop and become frantic when a government agent from the census bureau arrives to collect information.

The man of the house, a drunk who stumbles onto the stage in his boxers, convinces the agent to make up the information, which he does with the help of the excited seamstresses.

The play was about a man plagued with chicken pox and various other ailments, including an over-jealous wife.

When the wife comes home to find two women in her house, a 70-year-old maid with a dead leg and a nurse who also happens to be a nun, she becomes outraged and leaves the poor balding man crying on the floor.

The third play continued the theme of deception. In this play, a man comes home to find his wife’s “visitor” hiding in the shower curtain in the bathroom.

The wife, after trying to convince her husband that the man is a plumber, then her brother, finally resolves the situation by convincing her husband that he is delusional.

Torre offers the class every spring quarter, and the performance serves as the final project for the Spanish-speaking

students.