Raha Javanfar
iPhoto caption: Coleen Shirin MacPherson in 'Searching for Aimai.' Photo by Seanna Kennedy.
Playwright-performer Coleen Shirin MacPherson refers to herself as “colonized upon arrival,” born in Canada yet shaped by migrations and erasures that predate her birth. “I don’t have an ancient song or a lullaby that connects us across generations,” she tells her child. That absence — of song, language, and unbroken tradition — propels the Cahoots Theatre production.
iPhoto caption: Dwain Murphy and Virgilia Griffith in 'a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone
(-noun).' Photo by Jae Yang.
REVIEW: Obsidian and Tarragon co-production reflects on the inadequacy of language
a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun): the title says it all, offering a definition for an absent word. The thing is the thing unsaid. For the play’s three couples, language falls short: beautifully, tragically, sublimely.
iPhoto caption: (left to right) Divine Brown, Travis Knights and Beau Dixon perform as part of the new Slaight Music Associates.
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