Friday, February 26, 2010
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- Description:
- Started initially as Wong’s personal exploration of mental illness among Asian American women. Asian women have the highest rates of suicide in a highly unpublicized statistic. The show itself examines larger themes of human isolation, “fiction” as a mode of cultural and psychic survival, and satirically skewers the bureaucracy of low-income mental health services. Despite the somber subject, the show is quite funny and is a great way to engage audiences to think about mental health issues in their community. This serio-comic, swear-to-god-not autobiographical show was created from the support of three major arts funders – NPN, Creative Capital and the NEA.
- Company:
- Living Arts
- Location:
- Nightingale Theater
- Admission:
- $10, $7 Members and Students
- Reservation Required:
- No
- For Mature Audiences:
- No
- Description:
- Midwestern Theater Troupe’s original production was inspired and developed from the Recorder song “Dear Nebulon”, which was itself inspired by a series of real-life encounters the band had with a local eccentric and frequenter of Orpha’s Lounge, a man who calls himself Nebulon and claims to be from an eponymous planet. Nebulon feels that he is in communication with beings of a higher order who communicate to him through a special black box. He feels that his mission is largely to help humanity, and to suffer for it. Recorder collaborates with John Cruncleton to stage their songs as a performance piece in which the character Nebulon progresses through the song-cycle by presenting the various fractured emanations of his psyche in between the songs.
- Company:
- Living Arts
- Location:
- Nightingale Theater
- Admission:
- $10, $7 Members and Students
- Reservation Required:
- No
- For Mature Audiences:
- Yes
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