‘A Driving Beat’ at Theatreworks Silicon Valley – A queer white mother and her Latino son take a revealing road trip

Jon Victor Corpuz, left, plays Matteo, and Lee Ann Payne is his mother Diane in Theatreworks Silicon Valley’s production of “Driving Beat.”

Photo: Kevin Berne

“A Driving Beat,” now in its world premiere production at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, depicts a cross-country road trip. That’s tried-and-true narrative subject matter, but playwright Jordan Ramirez Puckett has mapped a unique route through familiar terrain by concentrating on intersections.   Disparate generations, ethnicities, sexualities, and musical tastes cross paths throughout an earnest, often charming mother-son ride from Ohio to San Diego.   LONELY COMPANIONS Fourteen-year-old Matteo (Jon Victor Corpuz, convincingly playing a character half his age) is being taken on a long promised westward quest by his mother, Diane (Le