{"id":26403,"date":"2012-11-09T05:22:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T05:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26403"},"modified":"2016-05-13T01:53:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T01:53:12","slug":"alien-citizen-an-earth-odyssey-solo-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26403","title":{"rendered":"Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey [solo show]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usaprojects.org\/project\/alien_citizen_an_earth_odyssey_solo_show\" target=\"_blank\">Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey [solo show]<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usaprojects.org\" target=\"_blank\">USA Projects<\/a><br \/>\n2012<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usaprojects.org\/user\/elizabethliang\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Liang<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nLos Angeles<\/p>\n<p>Over the last two years, I\u2019ve developed <em>Alien Citizen<\/em> (originally titled <em>Unpacked<\/em>) at the David Henry Hwang Writers Institute, Terrie Silverman\u2019s \u201cStart to Finish Solo-Show\u201d Master Class, and on my own.\u00a0 I performed segments of it at the \u201c5,000 Women\u201d Festival at Wesleyan University, the Hollywood Fringe Festival, East West Players, and Beyond Baroque.\u00a0 This production will be my first step toward the much larger goal of taking a self-contained theatrical work around the country (and world, hopefully).\u00a0 I am doing it now because of an irrepressible need to share the Third Culture Kid experience, which is extraordinary yet rarely told.<\/p>\n<p>Who are you when you\u2019re from everywhere and nowhere?\u00a0 And what\u2019s more important to a Guatemalan-American teen in Egypt: the Pyramids of Giza or the prom?\u00a0 <em>Alien Citizen<\/em> is a funny and poignant one-woman multi-character show about growing up as a dual citizen of mixed heritage in Central America, North Africa, the Middle East, and New England.\u00a0 Alienation and the search for identity, as well as the sometime refusal to search and learn, weave thematically through the narrative.\u00a0 Another recurring theme is the challenge of growing into womanhood in environments that can be hostile to females (including the USA).\u00a0 The main character struggles with being a \u201cperfect guest\u201d in each host country, which often involves stifling herself.\u00a0 Where is the line between respecting others and betraying yourself?\u00a0 Naturally, humor is a great survival mechanism!&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usaprojects.org\/project\/alien_citizen_an_earth_odyssey_solo_show\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey [solo show] USA Projects 2012 Elizabeth Liang Los Angeles Over the last two years, I\u2019ve developed Alien Citizen (originally titled Unpacked) at the David Henry Hwang Writers Institute, Terrie Silverman\u2019s \u201cStart to Finish Solo-Show\u201d Master Class, and on my own.\u00a0 I performed segments of it at the \u201c5,000 Women\u201d Festival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,395,13,8,20],"tags":[12423,12676],"class_list":["post-26403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-elizabeth-liang","tag-usa-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46967,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26403\/revisions\/46967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}