La Casa de Las Diablitas (a play in three acts)

A tour group of US housewives is stranded in Mexico City by a revolution erupting north of the border. Rather than be confined to a refugee camp, they accept an offer from the mysterious Big Julie to set them up in a bordello. Big Julie will be their Madam; their customers will be expatriates from the US.
Meanwhile, led by the charismatic but vicious Honey Bartles, the People’s Park Freedom Fighters capture the states from the West Coast to the Appalachians, creating the United States of Mesoamerica, land of the have-nots. As the play opens, a truce has been called with the Original United States and the women of La Casa de Las Diablitas are contemplating going home.
Several agents of fate intervene. Big Julie, the madam, is actually Jules Barnes, former CIA Director, in drag. He has fled south to avoid capture by Honey Bartles, his real-life brother, John Barnes. Immediately after the truce is signed, the Revolutionary Cabinet deposes Honey, who flees with the Revolutionary treasury for Mexico City. Jules and John, mortal enemies, have each tried to assassinate the other, and that is Honey’s intent in coming to Mexico City.
Big Julie also took under “her” protection a social anthropologist, Heather O’Malley, who was stranded in Mexico City while studying the lives of Mexican streetwalkers. Heather is the prostitutes’ house mother, and she’s planning to get back to the States pronto, when first Julie and then Honey interfere.
Heather’s anchor to reality is a deaf and dumb charwoman (known simply as La Abuelita) who, when things look darkest for the housewife-prostitutes, organizes a pint-sized revolution that not only salvages their self-respect, but teaches Heather that she has something to gain from stepping out from behind her scientific objectivity and finding something worth dying for.