Downtown Urban Theater Festival

April 11 – April 18, 2014
8:30 – 10PM

Asian writers Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, Jiyoung Kim and Claire Tran will be featured at the 12th Annual season of Downtown Urban Theater Festival (DUTF) on April 11 and 18, 2014 at HERE in Soho, NYC.Friday, April 11, 2014 - 8:30pmFormosaby Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai (New York)Formosa is a solo show about beauty, body, culture, and Barbie via the poet-playwright’s imaginary encounters with a Taiwanese factory worker who makes the dolls, a Chinese adoptee girl who loves the dolls, and a Nicki Minaj-wannabe Asian American female hip hop MC who just might be turning into a doll.Friday, April 18, 2014 - 8:30pmGrandma Kim vs. Americaby Jiyoung Kim and Claire Tran (New Jersey/Wisconsin)Grandma Kim has had enough of her Americanized family’s wasteful, french-fry eating, individualist American habits. Her granddaughter, Mary, is ten years old now and believes that she has outgrown her grandmother’s care. Grandma Kim battles the dominant culture to save her relationship with her granddaughter.Formosa and Grandma Kim vs. America will be performed at HERE, 145 6th Avenue, NYC, Manhattan, 10013 (enter on Dominick Street one block south of Spring). Showtime is at 8:30pm and tickets are $18. Tickets are available online at www.dutfnyc.com or www.here.org or by calling (212) 352-3101. HERE Box Office is open after 5:00pm on show days or two hours before any performance.

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Theater

Organized by

Creative Ammo Inc.

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dutfnyc@gmail.com