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On the Side
GREAT PERFORMANCES is excited to announce this season, On The Side, a series that offers a taste of independent and new forms from the theatrical fringe.
The performance lover will glimpse a little of the political, wild, and timeless themes in theatre from an intimate boutique perspective.
José Torres-Tama Performance Art
Aliens, Immigrants, & Other Evildoers
Wednesday, October 5
7:30 p.m.
Student Life Center Ballroom
On the move again and not for the faint of heart, radical Latino performance artist and National Public Radio guest commentator, José Torres Tama performs his Sci-fi Latino Noir Mulitimedia Solo. The work satirizes the status of Latinos as aliens while exploring the rise in hate crimes against these individuals in the United States. In numerous bilingual characters, Torres-Tama shape-shifts in multiple identities challenging the flaws and labor exploitation in a country that also vilifies this same population in the process.
“Torres-Tama treads that dangerously vague turf of performance art gracefully…with dexterity and daring…” –The Village Voice, New York
Indian Ink Theatre Co.
Guru of Chai
Wednesday, November 2
7:30 p.m.
Student Life Center Ballroom
New Zealand’s award-winning Indian Ink Theatre Company has established a reputation for offering psychological insight in a package of good plain laughs, luminous performances and brilliant staging. The company makes its U.S. debut with The Guru of Chai, a story that connects the lives of a poor chaiwallah (tea seller), a young girl, a policeman in love, and a disreputable poet — all played out against the backdrop of the contradictions of technology and ancient gods in modern day India.
“Comic genius…it’s a tour de force from a Master of multicultural mayhem.” –The Age, Melbourne
