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Kaotic
Good Productions & Center for Hmong Arts and Talent (CHAT)
present
sia(b)
written
& performed by May Lee-Yang (featuring Katie Ka Vang)
directed by Robert Karimi
May
28- June 7
Gremlin
Theater, 2400 University Avenue West, St. Paul
Wed-Sat. show 8pm
Sunday shows start at 4:00pm
Order
Tickets now: (612) 236-5862
or for directions, click here
About the show:
Reinventing the one person
genre,writer May Lee-Yang enlists the talents of performance artist Katie
Vang to tell her personal story of a Hmong woman who feels silenced living
in the U.S., torn between her love for Nintendo games, pop culture and her
own Hmong culture. She searches to gain her voice again by fl eshing out and
reassembling the real voices of the Hmong community members around her mixed
with the images of karaoke pop music, Hulk Hogan, and Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Each character taking her closer to the discovery of her Siab, the Hmong word
for liver, the Hmong symbol for an individual’s core, and learning that
home is where the Siab is. For a community who has historically been searching
for home, Lee-Yang’s story is a humorous, emotional journey that shows
how we can all fi nd our voices, our center, by remembering the community
around us.
The Pioneer Press called sia(b)’s “puzzlelike construction...highly
engaging” and said that sia(b) “is often goofy and at times mournful,
but the playwright’s overarching quest for understanding and self-discovery
is so true it borders on heroic.”
sia(b) has been co-commissioned by Out North and kaotic good productions for National Performance Network Creation Fund.
