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Lian Amaris

LIAN AMARIS

  
Nationality:    USA
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Lian Amaris's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Lian Amaris's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Daddy's Black And Jewish         Swimming To Spalding

Daddy's Black And Jewish

Synopsis:
Performance artist Lian amaris takes on drag, soul food, and mitzvot in her newest monologue on sexual, racial, and religious "passing." Raised in a kosher Jewish household by a black Father and a feminist mother, amaris sculpts a world of hybrid identities inspired by gender-play, racial ambiguity, childhood mythologies, border crossing, and daily cultural tensions in her Crown Heights neighborhood. amaris combines monologue, music, Brechtian storytelling, and visual language to create a disturbing and charming portrait of a fragmented woman who has learned to cross any border, but cannot stay long in foreign lands. Framed as an episodic series of pop culture neuroses, Daddy's Black and Jewish explores themes of memory, mental illness, gender construction, and racial tensions, in the spirit of amaris's previous works.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
236 e. 3rd St, New York, NY 10009    23 Feb 2011

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Swimming To Spalding

Synopsis:
Following the map of experience described in Spalding Gray's masterpiece Swimming to Cambodianearly a generation ago, Swimming to Spalding recounts one performer's pilgrimage to the sites in Thailand evoked by Gray in his account of the filming of the movie the Killing Fields. Combining Gray's signature "table and notebook" story-telling style with her own theatrical approach, performer Lian amaris details a year of her experiences all over the world-from Bangkok brothels to Baghdad bombings, from Mardi Gras to mental institutions. Part homage, part commentary, Swimming to Spalding reflects on how beauty and grace endure amidst the cruelties of war, prostitution, mental illness, and making art.
- nytheatre.com

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Music:
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Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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