About This Show

A timeless tale of typecasting:  At her agent’s suggestion, a foreign-born actress performs 8 labors to prove that she can indeed play an American, or whatever that means. On her “Herculean” quest, we investigate tolerance and identity. When is somebody considered American enough in America? What does it take to become one? Why isn’t it a question of green cards or passports? If the quest for freedom is what leads us to this country, why, upon arriving, are we typecast to play the very fragment of ourselves we so eagerly wanted to leave behind?