In this Repisode we talk with Culture Clash - the legendary Latino performance troupe made up of Richard Montoya, Ricardo Salinas, and Herbert Siguenza - about what it was like to update material from their 20+ year catalog of interviews and create a new political satire for 2020.

CULTURE CLASH (STILL) IN AMERICA runs February 20–April 5, 2020 and tickets are available at berkeleyrep.org.

Culture Clash was founded on May 5, 1984 at the Galería de la Raza in San Francisco's Mission District, by the writers José Antonio Burciaga, Marga Gómez, Monica Palacios, Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, and Herbert Siguenza. The founding date is significant due to the importance of Cinco de Mayo to Mexican-Americans, the shared ethnicity of the majority of collaborators. Montoya and Sigüenza had both been involved in the Chicano art scene in the San Francisco Bay Area, Montoya being the son of Chicano poet, artist, and activist José Montoya, and Sigüenza having been involved in the art collective La Raza Graphics, which created works of graphic art to support campaigns of the Chicano Movement. Culture Clash's works range from comedic sketches to full-length plays and screenplays, all of which feature political satire and social satire. The troupe's members have appeared separately and together in several films and received numerous awards, commissions and grants. In 1993 they filmed 30 episodes of a sketch comedy television series, also called Culture Clash. Several episodes were aired on Fox affiliates.

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Music credit to Peter Yonka.