RUN! It’s getting ugly! Susana Cook
About This Show
Created with the intention to resist the intense wave of racism that is dividing this country, this play portrays the ridiculous xenophobia that makes people believe that speaking, learning or even listening to a different language will damage their culture.
In RUN! A pretty ordinary white nationalist family falls into a muddy and desperate identity crisis when they are attacked by La Contaminación Cultural. Their sense of language, grammar and origin gets altered, making them confused of who they really are.
About the Artist
Born in Argentina, Susana Cook is a New York based playwright, director and performer who has been creating original work for over 30 years. She has presented over 17 original plays in New York and around the world. Susana writes and directs all her shows and performs in them with her company. Her work is bold and funny, cleverly tackling racism, homophobia, sexism and classism. Her casts are comprised mostly of minority, queer and trans people.
Susana’s shows combine her long experience in political theater, experimental performance, cabaret, solo shows, ensemble work, music and dance creating a very intense experience.
Susana’s work has been presented in numerous performance spaces in New York City, including La Mama Experimental Theater, Joe’s Pub, Dixon Place, PS. 122, W.O.W Cafe Theater and The Kitchen. She also performed internationally in France, Spain, India, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and Canada.
Her work is archived at the Digital Video Library of The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics of New York University.
Monday, July 9, 2018 at 7:30pm
General Admission
$15 in advance
$18 at the door
Stu./Sen./idNYC
$12 in advance
$15 at the door
45 minutes
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Credits
Music by
Julian Mesri