Alex Emanuel is reading the role of Hunter S. Thompson (Raoul Duke) in Carlos Morton’s play Brown Buffalo tonight at 7pm at the IATI Theater, 64 East 4th Street. It’s about Chicano Movement activist Oscar “Zeta” Acosta, the “Samoan Attorney” in Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”, who disappeared in Mexico in 1974. In this two-act play the self-proclaimed “Brown Buffalo” is expelled from the Inframundo (underworld) by Native elders, who command him to return to the world of the living, where he interacts with the people he was closest to…

$5 suggested donation, FREE wine.

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