THE MIDWEST PREMIERE YOHEN By Philip Kan Gotanda Directed by Steve Scott Featuring Cheryl Hamada and Ernest Perry, Jr. September 18 - November 2, 2008 A divorced Japanese woman and an African-American GI meet in post-World War II Japan and fall in love. After decades of struggle, they have found an accepting Los Angeles suburb to call home--but their peaceful world is changing. More than a study of clashing cultures, Yohen is the poetic, resonant story of two partners who discover that intimate relationships change with environments--and love, however time-tested, is never constant. Presented in Association with Official Lighting Sponsor
	PLAYWRIGHT PHILIP KAN GOTANDA Philip Kan Gotanda is heralded as both a great American dramatist and a pioneering artist in the Asian American theatre movement. His plays are performed and studied across the US as well as internationally. Gotanda is a recipient of the Guggenheim Award and several other prestigious honors and awards.
THE MIDWEST PREMIERE PANGS OF THE MESSIAH By Motti Lerner Directed by Jennifer Green February 19 - April 12, 2009 Set in 2012 amidst the signing of a peace treaty between Israel and the Palestinians, Motti Lerner's Pangs of the Messiah is an apocalyptic yet fiercely humane drama about eight West Bank Jewish settlers pitted against an Israel they feel betrayed by. The play focuses on a religious family that finds itself torn between fighting to stay in their settlement and obeying their government's decision to dismantle it. Left hanging in the balance is the legacy of their beliefs.
	PLAYWRIGHT MOTTI LERNER Motti Lerner is one of Israel's top playwrights. His work is celebrated as daring, beautifully written, and theatrically inventive. Besides Israel, his plays have been produced in the US, the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria and Australia. Lerner is the recipient of the Israel Award for his creative work.
THE WORLD PREMIERE THE DNA TRAIL A Genealogy of Short Plays About Ancestry, Identity, and Utter Confusion Conceived by Jamil Khoury Directed by Steve Scott September 24 - November 15, 2009 Theatre meets science as a diverse group of playwrights each agree to take a genealogical DNA test in this identity-defying collection of short plays. For this adventurous project, Silk Road commissioned seven playwrights, each rooted in distinct immigrant narratives and cross-cultural experiences, to revisit their assumptions about identity politics and the perennial "who am I" question. Self, family, community, ethnicity, race, history, geography--it's all up for grabs! Come see where the DNA Trail leads to. Development Support Provided by The Albert Pick, Jr. Fund A program of Creative Capital, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Participating Playwrights: PHILIP KAN GOTANDA, VELINA HASU HOUSTON, DAVID HENRY HWANG, JAMIL KHOURY, SHISHIR KURUP, LINA PATEL, AND ELIZABETH WONG                 The seven playwrights featured in The DNA Trail include some of America's best regarded and leading dramatists as well as some exciting new emerging voices. Stylistically, artistically, and culturally this is a diverse group of writers promising a collection of original short plays that are engaging, provocative, and entertaining.
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