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SRTP Travels to Naperville's North
Central College November 20-23
 Missed Silk Road Theatre Project's production of Yohen? Want to see it again? Next week, November, 20-23, SRTP will
travel to
Naperville to present the acclaimed Philip Kan Gotanda Play at North Central College's new Meiley-Swallow Hall.
To
purchase tickets, visit
http://finearts.northcentralcollege.edu
or call the North Central College Box Office at
630-637-SHOW.
"devastatingly truthful and naturally etched." Three Stars -
RECOMMENDED
--Megan Powell, Time Out Chicago
"an intimate emotional rendering...vivid and filled with character" 3 1/2
Stars
--Venus Zarris, Chicago Stage Review
"Ernest Perry Jr. and Cheryl Hamada transcend...lovingly exposing the tragedy of a good marriage gone wrong."
--Laura Molzahm, Chicago Reader
Photo of Ernest Perry, Jr. and Cheryl Hamada by Michael Brosilow.
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THE MIDWEST PREMIERE
YOHEN
By Philip Kan
Gotanda
Directed by Steve Scott
Featuring
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Cheryl Hamada
as Sumi |
Ernest Perry, Jr.
as James |
November 20-23, 2008
Meiley-Swallow Hall at North Central College
31 S. Ellsworth, Naperville, IL
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.
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Learn More With Silk Road Sojourns
Visit www.srtp.org/sojourns for the Sojourns companion magazine, blog, and
podcast,
all available free online.
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PLAYWRIGHT PHILIP KAN GOTANDA
Philip Kan Gotanda is heralded as both a great American dramatist and a pioneering artist in the
cross-cultural 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.
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 Haram Iran at the Athenaeum
Through December 7
Haram Iran, written by
Jay Paul Deratany and Directed by David Zak, is based on the true story
about the trial of two Iranian teenagers in Mashad, Iran in 2005.
Haram
Iran tells the story of two boys coming of age, and struggling with their
identities as Arab Iranians, and as typical teenagers longing to discover their
place in the world. Ayaz Marhouni and Mahmoud Asgari, two fifteen year
old boys who may have been gay or may have been experimenting with their
sexuality-- like many teenagers do, however, they get caught in a compromised
position, publicly humiliated and tried in the Iranian legal system. The
story follows the boys' passions--one for literature and the other for
sports--and both for each other. The play takes the audience into the
complexity of their relationship, and then the horrifying ordeal of being tried
by an unforgiving Iranian legal system which misinterprets the Muslim law of
Sharia.
More information www.haramiran.com.
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outstanding businesses.
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November 13th
| One more chance to see Yohen
