April 12 - 19 "From the Ashes"
WRITTEN BY: Meena Natarajan.
DIRECTED BY: Dipankar Mukherjee.
DATE: April 12-29, 2007 7:30pm (Thursday – Sunday).
LOCATION: Pangea World Theater Studio. FEATURING: Charla Bailey, Katie Herron, Annelize Machado, Alberto Panelli, Kiseung Rhee, Katie Vang, and Ethan Xiong.
PERCUSSION BY: Sara Dejoras.
Committed to celebrating cultural differences and promoting human rights, Pangea brings on stage a wide array of questions that interlace immigration and refugee realities with this play. What does it mean to be an immigrant? What does it mean to yearn for a place that you've never been to? How does that change when something catastrophic happens, when you no longer feel welcome? Featuring Charla Bailey, Katie Herron, Annelize Machado, Alberto Panelli, Kiseung Rhee, Katie Vang and Ethan Xiong, From the Ashes is an aesthetic theater piece that brings to the audience a cast as diverse as newly shaping US demographics. Inspired from Voices of Silence, a report by Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights of the ongoing impact of 9/11 on local refugee and immigrant communities, From the Ashes explores the reality of what it means to be searching for home, for something to believe in, and for causes to live for. Using the immediacy of street theater as the idiom, From the Ashes explores the global question of migration and movement in a multi-lingual, physically charged performance with live music.
Post-performance discussions will be held on Fridays and Saturdays and are co-sponsored by Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights.
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