DIS-ORIENTED. Cultural indigestion, color-blindness and inter-ethnic vertigo. Is there a cure? Is it treatable? Is it contagious? That’s what three women, Zahra, Thao and Coke — Iranian, Vietnamese and Okinawan/Japanese — try to find out as they aim to DIS-orient themselves from external stereotypes and internal expectations.
This show features a dynamic trio of performers whose individual solo pieces will lead you across a Muslim-Atheist supper table, the Mekong Delta, and Diagnostic Systems of Sexual Dysfunction. In between each solo performance are smart and biting vignettes — comic sketches, audience improv games, and contemporary dance — that will leave you happy to be as DIS-oriented as they are.
DIS-oriented is a performance presented by the San Francisco Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center as a part of the 13th Annual United States of Asian America Festival, a month-long tribute to Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month (May in the United States).
THE PERFORMANCES:
“All Atheists Are Muslim” written & performed by ZAHRA NOORBAKHSH.
How hard can it be for Zahra, an Iranian Muslim girl in her mid-twenties, to move-in with her Atheist White-American boyfriend and cheerfully tell her father that she doesn’t need his blessing?
“Soft Tissue” written & performed by COLLEEN “Coke” NAKAMOTO.
What’s a woman to do when her vagina says ‘No!’ and refuses to come out and play? See what happens when one girl’s dreams of true love and professional go-go dancing get derailed by speculums, visiting spirits and the F word.
“Fortunate Daughter” written & performed by THAO P. NGUYEN
Thao, 25, wakes up on a good morning in Vietnam, dons her full-metal jacket and goes deer hunting on Hamburger Hill with Forrest Gump and Martin Sheen. Only she survives. Later, her mom takes her to meet her grandmother for the first time.
May 14, 2010 8:00PM – 10:00PM
Mission Cultural Center
2868 Mission St, SF
One block from 24th & Mission BART
TICKETS:
$15 General Admission
$20 Patron of the Arts.
Group Rates Available Online
