Type/Caste - A Solo Show About Acting While Black (& Queer)
Organization:
Queer Cultural Center & Rotimi Agbabiaka
Category:
Performing Arts
Geographical Area:
San Francisco
Start
Date:
6/10/2016
End Date:
6/11/2016
Start Time:
7:30 PM
End Time:
9:00 PM
Event
Info:
June 10-11, 7:30pm
A queer, black actor dreams of a dazzling career on the American stage but faces an industry that isn't always welcoming to applicants who are neither white nor straight. In his latest solo show Rotimi Agbabiaka shape-shifts from character to character and using monologue, song, dance and drag to embody, explore, and expose the battles minority artists fight in the exclusive world of mainstream American theatre. Drawing from Rotimi's real life experience as a professional actor, Type/Caste portrays the peaks and pitfalls of a young artist's quest for success in a gentrified and commercialized industry the creations of outsider art in a profession that favors insiders and despite the soul suck of capitalism. In the moment of #OscarsSoWhite and in the spirit of #BlackArtMatters,Type/Caste is a personal look at the politics of (mis-) representation on the American stage.
Type/Caste is presented by the Queer Cultural Center as part of the National Queer Arts Festival.
Rotimi Agbabiaka is an actor, singer, writer, director and teaching artist. He is a collective member of the SF Mime Troupe, a former cast member at Beach Blanket Babylon, and his solo play, Homeless, won Best Solo Performance at the SF Fringe Festival. He has done drag at Club Something and Hard French and has presented his writing at the Radar Reading Series and Queer Autonomous Zone. He also writes articles for Theatre Bay Area magazine.
Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe is the creator of several solo pieces including Adventures of a Black Girl In Search of Academic Clarity and Inclusion, published by Indiana University press in 2014. An award winning director, she has worked at Trinity Repertory Company, Capital Repertory, Southern Rep in New Orleans, Mark Taper Forum, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Woolly Mammoth, Curious Theatre in Denver and in the Bay Area at the Magic Theatre, Exit Theatre, TheaterWorks in Palo Alto, Theatre Rhinoceros and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre.
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