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Aisha'n'Ben | Theatre | Vancouver | March 19-21
Posted by Tamiko, March 21, 2009 12:42 AM | Permalink
Don't miss out! Last two performances today (Saturday, March 21st)!
Turns out the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics does have more to offer than a huge debt and cute mascots. It's also hosting what they call the Cultural Olympiad 2009, which promotes multidisciplinary "contemporary imagination," which includes what sounds like a great theatre experience in AISHA N' BEN.
This play grapples with issues of identity and the perils of success:
"When a young Indo-Canadian starlet (performed by Anita Majumdar, who also wrote the play) obsessed with skin whitening flees to Bombay to shoot her next Bollywood film, her values are turned upside down by a dark-skinned Filipino-Canadian fellow actor (performed by Leon Aureus, who wrote the theatre production of Banana Boys) Through their relationship, she is forced to confront what it means to be true to one's self."
Anita n' Ben
When: March 19-21 @ 8:00pm | Matinee March 21 @ 2:00 pm
Where: Studio Theatre, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
Ticketing information line: 604.280.4444
Price: $20 to $25 | $20 for students and groups of 10 or more
More: Aisha n' Ben @ 2010 Cultural Olympiad | Aisha n' Ben @ Chan Centre | Aisha n' Ben @ South Asian Arts | Georgia Strait
Written by Anita Majumdar
Performed by Anita Majumdar and Leon Aureus
Directed & Dramaturged by Brian Quirt
Lighting Design by Beth Kates
Costume Design by Nina Okens
Sound Design by Gurpreet Sian
Remixes by Tspoon
Presented With:
South Asian Arts
Theatre Ji
in association with Carlos Bulosan Theatre
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