D’FunQT (pronounced defunct): A BIG D’Lo SHOW
Presented by Dixon Place as part of the 2010 HOT Festival
Dixon Place
161 A Chrystie (Between Rivington & Delancey)
New York, NY 10002
(212) 219-0736
Date: Thursday, August 5, 2010
Time: 9:30 PM
Price: $10 advance/$15 door
D’Loco Kid Productions in partnership with Butters and Papi Productions has announced that D’FunQT: A Big D’Lo Show will be held on Thursday, August 5th, 2010. The piece will premiere at Dixon Place as a part of Dixon Place’s Hot! Festival, a pioneering festival of queer performance and culture – and the oldest, continually running festival of its kind in the world! D’FunQT: A Big D’Lo Show is a one night spectacular from the critically acclaimed artist D’Lo, a Los Angeles based, Tamil Sri Lankan-American comedian, writer, theater artist, director, and advocate.
Known mostly for solo theater that brings to life emotionally charged characters that cross generations and genders, D’Lo’s new show D’FunQT (pronounced “defunct”) is a “stripped-up” version of D’Lo’s solo theater work. This ‘stand-up storytelling’ performance is a humorous musing on being a queer boy/transgendered person who grew up in a strict immigrant family. D’FunQT serves as a showcase for D’Lo’s talent as a performer and writer as the artist shares stories of repeated coming out processes, explorations on topics relating to South Asia, transgender social justice, queer social culture, loneliness, and the resilience of the human spirit.
The Bay Times raves, “Rarely will you find an artist with such polymorphous skill at storytelling and performance, one who understands the gentle, quiet rhythms of masterfully drawing a moment out and bringing it back in.”
Digging Up the Dirt by Cherríe Moraga
Directed by Cherríe Moraga & Adelina Anthony
A play about: poetry and perversion; about making love and making art; about that old story of loving to death. Who murdered “Sirena Cantante” is not the question. The question is: why?”
Starring: Adelina Anthony*, Virginia Grise, Cheryl Umaña*, Anthony Rodrigo Castillo, Brenda Banda, D’Lo, & Melissa Hidalgo
Location
Breath of Fire Latina Theater
310 W. 5th St. (2nd Floor in El Centro Cultural de Mexico)
Santa Ana, CA
Performances
Fri, July 30, 2010 – Sun, Aug 29, 2010
(Play is intended for mature audiences and may not be suitable for children.)
Prices
Opening Night – $25 advance/door
Fridays and Saturdays @ 8PM – $15 advance/$20 door
Sundays @ 6PM – $10 advance/door
Purchasing tickets at the door – we ONLY accept cash and check.
Opening Night
Join us on July 30 for our Opening Night hors d’oeuvres and champagne reception and talk-back to follow the performance with the playwright/directors. Reception sponsored by Bistro400.com.
Group Rates Available
For further details or questions about group rates: info@breathoffire.org / Tel. 714-600-0129
About
“Digging Up the Dirt*” takes place, as Moraga writes, “Inside The Poet’s head, somewhere in the fragmented Chicano nation of Aztlán.” Here, as in most Moraga plays, the playwright uses the imagined landscape of the Southwest to poignantly explore those censored questions that continue to impact Chicana lives. And, as in most Moraga plays, such depictions give all of us pause –regardless of race or gender or sexuality. This is especially the case in “Digging Up the Dirt” where the plot thematically interweaves two murder stories. One is the tale of “Sirena Cantante’s” murderer, “Zanzibar,” serving a life sentence, while engaging in lesbian romances and being mercilessly visited by the probing “Poet.” The second is an intimate account of the murder of “Amada,” a Chicana lesbian killed by the hand of her own son. Through the telling of both stories, alternately satirical and tragic, audience members are held accountable for their own “crimes of passion” and the play becomes a kind of moving mirror to all our unacknowledged “murderous” deeds of the heart.
