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DESCRIPTION:"DIS-oriented"\nA trio of solo performances by Asian-American 
 women\n\nThursday, August 19 @ 8pm\nStage Werx Theater, San 
 Francisco\nPresented by the Solo Performance Workshop 
 Festival\n\n\n\nDIS-ORIENTED.  Cultural indigestion, color-blindness and 
 inter-ethnic vertigo.  Is there a cure?  Is it treatable?  Is it 
 contagious?  That's what three women, Zahra, Thao and Coke -- Iranian, 
 Vietnamese and Okinawan/Japanese -- try to find out as they aim to 
 DIS-orient themselves from external stereotypes and internal 
 expectations.\n\nThis show features a dynamic trio of performers whose 
 individual solo pieces will lead you across a Muslim-Atheist supper table, 
 the Mekong Delta, and Diagnostic Systems of Sexual Dysfunction.  In between 
 each solo performance are smart and biting vignettes -- comic sketches, 
 audience improv games, and contemporary dance -- that will  leave you happy 
 to be as DIS-oriented as they are.\n\n\nTHE PERFORMANCES:\n\n"All Atheists 
 Are Muslim"\nWritten & performed by ZAHRA NOORBAKHSH\nHow hard can it be 
 for Zahra, an Iranian Muslim girl in her mid-twenties, to move-in with her 
 Atheist White-American boyfriend and cheerfully tell her father that she 
 doesn't need his blessing?\n\n"Soft Tissue"\nWritten & performed by COLLEEN 
 "Coke" NAKAMOTO\nWhat's a woman to do when her vaj-j says 'No!' and refuses 
 to come out and play?  See what happens when one girl's dreams of true love 
 and professional go-go dancing get derailed by speculums, visiting spirits 
 and the F word.\n\n"Fortunate Daughter"\nWritten & performed by THAO P. 
 NGUYEN\nThao, 25, wakes up on a good morning in Vietnam, dons her 
 full-metal jacket and goes deer hunting on Hamburger Hill with Forrest Gump 
 and Martin Sheen.  Only she survives.  Later, her mom takes her to meet her 
 grandmother for the first time.\n\n\n\nWHAT:\nDIS-oriented:  A trio of solo 
 performances by Asian-American women\nFeaturing Coke Nakamoto, Zahra 
 Noorbakhsh, and Thao P. Nguyen\n\n\nWHEN:\nAugust 19\nThursday @ 
 8pm\n\n\nWHERE:\nStage Werx Theater\n533 Sutter St, SF (Map)\nNear Powell 
 St BART\n\n\nTICKETS:\n$20 General Admission\n$15 Student / Senior / 
 Low-income\nhttp://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/113314\n\n\n\nARTIST 
 BIOS:\n\nZAHRA NOORBAKHSH  is a solo-performer and stand-up comedian, who's 
 performed with Maz Jobrani from the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour, and Shazia 
 Mirza from Last Comic Standing.  Her one-woman show "Hijab and 
 Hammerpants," recently debuted at the SF Theater Festival, under the 
 direction of W. Kamau Bell (SF Weekly's performer of the year, 2008).  Find 
 out more about her comedy and solo shows at 
 http://www.zahracomedy.com.\n\nCOLLEEN "Coke" NAKAMOTO is a solo performer, 
 curious about where words meet the body.  Coke has presented her work at 
 the David Henry Hwang Theater (LA), the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts 
 (Carmel), and locally at NOHSpace, Stagewerx, CounterPULSE (Words First, 
 APAture, Asian American Dance Performances), The Marsh, SOMArts 
 (APICC/Eth-Noh-Tec), the San Francisco Theater Festival, and the Joyce 
 Gordon Gallery (For Colored Girls Only). "Soft Tissue" is the second piece 
 she has developed under the direction of W. Kamau Bell and the Solo 
 Performance Workshop.\n\nTHAO P. NGUYEN has been writing and performing 
 solo shows since she joined the Solo Performance Workshop in 2007.  Her 
 director, the critically acclaimed W. Kamau Bell ("Four Stars" in Time Out 
 New York and SF Chronicle), has awarded her with the coveted "W. Kamau Bell 
 Solo Performance Black Belt," a distinction which to this date has been 
 awarded only four times.  She also co-produces two monthly solo performance 
 series in San Francisco: "Words First" at CounterPULSE and "City Solo" at 
 Off-Market Theater.\n\n\n\nFUTURE PERFORMANCES:\n\nOctober 6\nWednesday @ 
 7:30pm\nPresented by "Words First" at CounterPULSE\n1310 Mission St, 
 SF\nNear Civic Center BART\n\nOctober 3, 10, 17\nSundays @ 7pm\nPresented 
 by "City Solo" at Off-Market Theater\n965 Mission St, SF\nNear Powell 
 BART\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/05/29/18649165.php
SUMMARY:DIS-ORIENTED: A trio of solo performances by Asian-American women
LOCATION:Stage Werx Theater\n533 Sutter Street\nSan Francisco, CA 94102\n\nNear 
 Powell St BART station
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