Type/Caste: A Solo Show About Acting While Black (& Queer)
Organization:
Brava Theater Center
Category:
Performing Arts
Geographical Area:
San Francisco
Start
Date:
9/15/2016
End Date:
10/1/2016
Start Time:
8:00 PM
End Time:
9:30 PM
Event
Info:
September 15 - October 1, Thursday, Fridays, Saturdays, 8:00-9:30pm
In Type/Caste a queer, black actor dreams of a dazzling career on the American stage but will first have to leap over obstacles placed by 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 uses monologue, song, dance, and drag to embody, explore, and expose the battles minority artists fight in the exclusive world of mainstream American theatre.
Based on Rotimi's real life experience as a professional actor, Type/Caste is a fast paced and humorous journey into the peaks, pitfalls, and hallucinations of a young artist's quest for success in a gentrified and commercialized industry as he attempts to create outsider art in a profession that favors insiders and in spite of the soul suck of capitalism. In this moment of #OscarsSoWhite, Type/Caste is a personal look at the politics of (mis-) representation on the American stage.
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