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DESCRIPTION: \n\n 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\n    This 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\nZahra 
 Noorbakhsh\nAll Atheists Are Muslim \nIt's time for Zahra and Duncan to 
 move in together.  She just needs to convince her Iranian, Muslim parents 
 that her white, Atheist, Infidel boyfriend should move in with her.  Yup, 
 it's just your regular, everyday story of "Boy meets Girl meets thousands 
 of years of cultural tradition and religious doctrine."  Can she do it? 
 Come find out!  You may even discover your more Muslim than you 
 think.\n\n\nColleen "Coke" Nakamoto \nSoft Tissue (Bloodlines 
 excerpt)\nWhat makes a girl turn a woman? Is it easy or is it hard? Do you 
 have to take a test to become a real woman, and how do you know when you 
 are one? These are questions Coke has to navigate by herself, since none of 
 the people or professionals to whom she turns are able to help her body 
 (her you-know-what) to open up and say "yes." During her solitary tour of 
 her body, she bumps into truths about her cultureno, make that plural, 
 culturesthat help her to realize that her tour is not solitary at all. What 
 is the secret that is shared by women worldwide? What lives in her soft 
 tissue?\n\n\nThao P. Nguyen\nFortunate Daughter \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 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/05/09/18679294.php
SUMMARY:DIS-Oriented - a Trio of Middle Eastern and Asian American Solo Performers
LOCATION:Stage Werx Theatre\n511 Sutter (nr. Powell)\nSF, 94102
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/05/09/18679294.php
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