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LIAN AMARIS |
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Plays by Lian Amaris |
Daddy's Black and Jewish | ||
| 1st Produced: | Nuyorican Poets Cafe | 23 Feb 2011 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #125279 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Performance artist Lian Amaris takes on drag, soul food, and mitzvot in her newest monologue on sexual, racial, and religious "passing." Raised in a kosher Jewish household by a black father and a feminist mother, Amaris sculpts a world of hybrid identities inspired by gender-play, racial ambiguity, childhood mythologies, border crossing, and daily cultural tensions in her Crown Heights neighborhood. Amaris combines monologue, music, Brechtian storytelling, and visual language to create a disturbing and charming portrait of a fragmented woman who has learned to cross any border, but cannot stay long in foreign lands. Framed as an episodic series of pop culture neuroses, Daddy's Black and Jewish explores themes of memory, mental illness, gender construction, and racial tensions, in the spirit of Amaris's previous works. | |||||
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Swimming to Spalding | ||
| 1st Produced: | 06 Dec 2009 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #107274 | |||
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Synopsis: | Following the map of experience described in Spalding Gray's masterpiece Swimming to Cambodianearly a generation ago, Swimming to Spalding recounts one performer's pilgrimage to the sites in Thailand evoked by Gray in his account of the filming of the movie The Killing Fields. Combining Gray's signature "table and notebook" story-telling style with her own theatrical approach, performer Lian Amaris details a year of her experiences all over the world-from Bangkok brothels to Baghdad bombings, from Mardi Gras to mental institutions. Part homage, part commentary, Swimming to Spalding reflects on how beauty and grace endure amidst the cruelties of war, prostitution, mental illness, and making art. | |||||
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