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Conquering The Canon - An African-American artist does every play William Shakespeare ever wrote, but loses the people he loved most along the way.
Crossing - Jordan has crossed the country to be with her estranged mother as she dies.Watching the live-
cam of moose migrating across a river in Sweden makes her reconsider her family’s own
migration across the Rio Grande. This one-act solo play breaks the fourth wall to invite the
audience into the childhood home where Jordan describes the moose swimming awkwardly
across a river. The moose remind her of her grandmother and the story of her river crossing that
Jordan never learned. She is an assimilated “English-only” American, while her grandmother,
having migrated as a young woman, never spoke English. Even so, Jordan felt closer to her
Mexican grandmother than to her first-generation American mother, and this tension informs her
narrative. Her geographical and emotional distance from her mother is a common American story
of cultural difference and audiences of all backgrounds can relate to Jordan’s dilemma. We learn
together that her mother’s impending death is less an ending than a beginning.
The Underdog Shines - Is a solo performance that follows ENRI, a queer
Filipinx individual navigating identity, trauma, and survival across memory, movement, and
time.
Through a nonlinear structure that shifts between past and present, ENRI confronts cultural
displacement, family rejection, violence, and illness while rediscovering voice through
performance, rhythm, and self-definition.
The piece moves between spoken word and embodied storytelling, building toward a reclamation
of identity and a commitment to remembrance and resistance. At its core, the work asks what it
means to be seen, to survive, and to remain present in a world that has repeatedly demanded
disappearance.
Tickets $20 in advance, $30 at the Door
No refunds if tickets are not used.
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