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Mulatto Child: Voices from the Margins
Thursday Sep 16, 8PM @ 2640 (2640 St. Paul St.)
Mulatto Child is a 45 minute solo performance where one man attempts to confront the status quo:
Black=Gangsta'. Chicano=Illegal Immigrant. Gay= Queen. Homeless=Lazy. Prostitute=Loves Sex. How about you? Do you like the way you're represented?
Mulatto Child is not designed to provide answers; it is intended to put stereotype into a position where it can't help but be confronted. Author and actor Paul Diem works from the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s strategy: "to use stereotypes and inflate them to huge proportions so that neither the audience nor the actors can avoid confronting them directly. By rendering these often inconspicuous images highly visible, [we] can then more easily parody them, question them, and tear them apart." Join in the conversation... laugh at the ridiculous construction.
See Mulatto Child - Voices From The Margins.
Paul Diem is a Baltimore native recently returned from graduate school in L.A., where Mulatto Child was created as a part of his master's thesis on the issue of stereotyped identity. When he last performed solo in Baltimore (2003), City Paper named it one of the Top 10 shows of the year. (The New America at The Top Floor).
$5 - $10 sliding scale donation requested, please and thank you!
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