Sister in the Smoke seeks to:
- use theater to educate a wider audience about violence in the APIA community;
- foster a critical and continuing dialogue about the issue of violence within the community;
- provide an opportunity for APIA women to cultivate their artistic skills in the creation of a full-scale collaborative interdisciplinary production; and
- empower the cast of Mango Tribe by engaging in the critique and confrontation of violence from a personal to a global level, and ultimately to address these issues within the larger community.
SISTERS IN THE SMOKE show details:
"THESE ARE THE STORIES"
written and performed by: Mango Tribe
arranged by: Emily C. Chang
directed by: Marian Yalini Thambynayagam
"SACRIFICE"
written and directed by: Kelly Tsai
fire: Vanessa De Guia
earth: Kelly Tsai
metal: Sarwat Rumi
water: Sharmili Majmudar
wood: Jill Aguado
"DUST FROM HER DANCE"
written and performed by: Pradeepa Jeevamanoharan
"REVOLVER"
written and directed by: Gina Magsombol
performed by: Gina Magsombol, Jill Aguado, Vanessa De Guia,
Sharmili Majmudar, Sarwat Rumi, and Kelly Tsai
Six Asian American assault victims in Chicago tell their stories
of the attack.
"SCAR"
video by: San Tong
written, directed, and performedby:
Emily C. Chang and Jennifer Cenda–a Armas
Rediscovering self-love between internal and external hurt.
"FEEDING SHAME"
written by: Vanessa De Guia and Jill Aguado
directed by: Gina Magsombol
performed by:
Jing: Jill Aguado
Girlie: Vanessa De Guia
Ensemble: Sharmili Majmudar, Gina Magsombol, Pradeepa Jeevamanoharan,
Sarwat Rumi, Kelly Tsai, Marian Yalini Thambynayagam, Emily C. Chang
You're too skinny. You're too fat. The psychologically wounding
quest for peace of mind between food, self, and being Filipino.
"VIOLENCE BREEDS"
written and recorded by: Sarwat Rumi
directed by: Emily C. Chang and Marian Yalini Thambynayagam
performed by: Marian Yalini Thambynayagam
"REBEL LULLABY"
written by: Sarwat Rumi
performed by: Sarwat Rumi, Jill Aguado, and Marian
Yalini Thambynayagam
**Visuals courtesy of Faisal Hadi and special thanks to Chien
Yuan for conceptualizing and recording vocal arrangements
"POWER MOVES"
conceived and arranged by: Kelly Tsai
choreographed by: Pradeepa Jeevamanoharan and Kelly Tsai
Via audio collage, 12 Asian Pacific Islander American men from
across the country explore their power by talking about violence
against women, hip hop, and masculinity in our communities as 6
APIA women explore their physical power through dance.
"DAMAGED MERCHANDISE"
written and directed by: Lani Montreal
voice-over of Gary Clark: Steven Baz
cameraman/the groom: Daniel Finley
video by: Ann Poochareon and Allan Sargan
performed by:
clown: Pradeepa Jeevamanoharan
pinay: Jill Aguado
voice of ninay: Jennifer Armas
beauty queens: Emily C. Chang and Kelly Tsai
A satire that interrogates a system that allows the commodification
of Third World women for the convenience of First World men. If
globalization is the new form of imperialism, is the mail-order-bride
the new comfort woman?
"WE BE WITCHES"
choreographed and performed by: Jennifer Armas
video by: Ann Poochareon
"TRIGGERS"
written by: Anida Yoeu Esguerra and Marian Yalini Thambynayagam
directed by: Marian Yalini Thambynayagam
video by: Ann Poochareon, San Tong, and Anida Yoeu Esguerra
performed by:
woman - Emily C. Chang
Afghan Woman - Kelly Tsai
Sri Lankan Woman - Sharmili Majmudar
Khmer Woman - Vanessa De Guia
Filipina Woman - Marian Yalini Thambynayagam
Four women who have survived war and hate pass on their history
by haunting a woman who is perceived as mad.
**Visuals courtesy of Sophoan Khaoeun, Andy Gaston, the Shorish
Family, Michelle Alba, RAWA,
Tamil Times and Tamil Guardian. Drawings from "Comfort Woman:
A Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery Under the Japanese
Military," by Maria Rosa Henson.
"VIOLENCE BREEDS"
written and recorded by: Sarwat Rumi
directed by: Emily C. Chang and Marian Yalini Thambynayagam
performed by: Marian Yalini Thambynayagam
"WHO'S GOT US?"
written and directed by: Anida Yoeu Esguerra
video by: Ann Poochareon, and Anida Yoeu Esguerra
performed by: Sarwat Rumi, Vanessa De Guia, and Emily C.
Chang
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