16 ten-minute plays by sixteen playwrights meditating on 120 years of relationships between non-Asian Americans and the Asian American community, set in a public square of an American city’s Chinatown. - mix of styles from realistic to stylized tone poems
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Mark Taper Forum, LA
2011
Theatre Communications Group
9781559363631
included in Version 3.0, Contemporary Asian American Plays. NOTE FROM READER: This play was written in collaboration with 15 other writers
included in Version 3.0, Contemporary Asian American Plays. NOTE FROM READER: This play was written in collaboration with 15 other writers
Solo Show
Adrenaline follows Jaber, a refugee getting ready to celebrate his first New Year’s Eve in Canada after leaving his war-torn home in Syria. Using objects he has around the house, Jaber unpacks memories of war and tries to understand the price he has had to pay for his safety in Canada.
Musical
In this lyrical masterpiece, four cousins reunite in Jamaica to mourn the passing of their grandmother and to celebrate the times they shared together. There's vilma, an up-and-coming politician; kris, a celebrity chef; tyetye, who's incarcerated; and likklebit, who's immigrated to Canada. As the cousins reminisce about the woman who had such a strong role in rearing them, they uncover their troubles and begin to fulfill grannie's last task: to bring them back in tune with themselves.
