{"id":225,"date":"2007-12-29T08:26:52","date_gmt":"2007-12-29T12:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/blog\/?p=225"},"modified":"2007-12-29T08:26:54","modified_gmt":"2007-12-29T12:26:54","slug":"support-this-new-play-she-like-girls-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/blog\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"Support This – New Play – she like girls (NY)"},"content":{"rendered":"

From January 9 – 13, 2008
\nthe Lark will present a BareBones\u00ae production of…
\nshe like girls
\nby Chisa Hutchinson <\/p>\n

Triggered by the 2003 murder of a Newark, NJ teenager, Chisa Hutchinson’s She Like Girls is the story of two inner-city high school girls who fall in love in a dangerously homophobic climate.<\/p>\n

MORE ABOUT THE PLAY, FROM CHISA… <\/p>\n

“The play isn’t about murder…it’s more about the urban community, the urban family, and how they respond to homosexuality.”<\/p>\n

“If I sit through two hours of a middle-aged white guy having an existential crisis or and well-off white chicks debating the merits of marriage, then why not expose the white folks to the plight of poor Kia Clark, lesbian teenager fighting against the doubly oppressive forces of the inner-city? Everyone deserves validation. ” <\/p>\n

WHAT DO YOU HOPE AUDIENCES WALK AWAY WITH?
\n“Two things: a sense of parallels and a heightened awareness. “The idea of them marrying is ridiculous.” “Their souls are damned, if they have souls at all.” Gee, that sounds familiar. If people didn’t question the validity of those types of assertions, then folks like me might still have to jump brooms and ride them all the way to hell or limbo or wherever it is that white people thought the pseudo-souls of black people ended up back then. And the fact that gays are being excluded, harassed, and murdered by a group of people still reeling from the effects of having others do those very things to them? The irony is just too much. My theory is that there are only a handful of really toxic, really vocal haters, and pretty much everybody else is neutral\u2026and [they] need to hear a voice of love and acceptance every now and then or else they’ll just habituate the hate. Or worse. They succumb to the toxicity and join in. And wouldn’t that be a waste? ” <\/p>\n

* * * *
\nTickets: $15 ($10 student)
\nwww.larktheatre.org<\/a> <\/p>\n

or call 212-352-3101<\/p>\n

group discounts available by calling 212-246-2676 x24 <\/p>\n

January 9 – 12 (8pm)
\nJanuary 12 – 13 (2pm) <\/p>\n

@ Lark Studio
\n939 Eighth Avenue , 2nd Floor (bet 55th – 56th Streets)
\nA,B,C,D,1 to Columbus Circle
\nN,Q, R, W to 57th Street
\nwww.larktheatre.org<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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