{"id":37339,"date":"2014-09-28T20:12:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T20:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37339"},"modified":"2022-02-25T18:42:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T18:42:30","slug":"am-i-white-by-adrienne-dawes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37339","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAm I White\u201d by Adrienne Dawes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/salvagevanguard.org\/productions\/2014\/am-i-white-by\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>\u201cAm I White\u201d by Adrienne Dawes<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/salvagevanguard.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Salvage Vanguard Theater<\/a> Presents the Word Premiere of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adriennedawes.com\/work\/#\/am-i-white\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Am I White<\/em><\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adriennedawes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adrienne Dawes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Performances run October 1- 18, 2014<br \/>\nVIP Opening Night Performance: October 4, 2014<\/p>\n<p>Salvage Vanguard Theater<br \/>\n2803 Manor Road<br \/>\nAustin, Texas 78722<br \/>\nTelephone: (512) 474-SVT-6 (474-7886)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/salvage.squarespace.com\/productions\/2014\/am-i-white-by\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.squarespace.com\/static\/50bbc16de4b05ce48945ec08\/t\/53ffd55ee4b073277d13d0dd\/1409275231364\/?format=500w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Salvage Vanguard Theater announces the third and final MADE IN THE SVT production of its 20th anniversary season: the world premiere of <em>Am I White<\/em> by local playwright <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adriennedawes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adrienne Dawes<\/a>, directed by Jenny Larson.<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neo-Nazism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neo-Nazi<\/a> terrorist Wesley Connor returns to prison after a failed bomb plot, he is confronted with the two identities that threaten his position within the White Order of Thule most: <strong>fatherhood and his own mixed race heritage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wesley Connor first entered the prison system at age 19. He became a member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_Order_of_Thule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White Order of Thule<\/a>, quickly rising the ranks of the &#8220;esoteric brotherhood working toward the revitalization of the Culture-Soul of the European people.&#8221; Within months of his release from prison, Wesley and teenage girlfriend Polly were arrested exchanging counterfeit bills at an ice cream shop. The subsequent search of their apartment found bomb-making materials, illegal weapons and plans that targeted the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Holocaust_Memorial_Museum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Holocaust Memorial Museum<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington,_D.C.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington, DC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the true story of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leo_Felton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leo Felton<\/a> and Erica Chase, <em>Am I White<\/em> travels between recurring dream and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minstrel_show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">minstrel show<\/a> nightmare to discover if a singular self exists in an alleged \u201cpost-racial\u201d America&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/salvagevanguard.org\/productions\/2014\/am-i-white-by\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAm I White\u201d by Adrienne Dawes Salvage Vanguard Theater Presents the Word Premiere of Am I White by Adrienne Dawes Performances run October 1- 18, 2014 VIP Opening Night Performance: October 4, 2014 Salvage Vanguard Theater 2803 Manor Road Austin, Texas 78722 Telephone: (512) 474-SVT-6 (474-7886) Salvage Vanguard Theater announces the third and final MADE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,125,8,6462,20],"tags":[17878,17879,6180,17880,2177],"class_list":["post-37339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-adrienne-dawes","tag-erica-chase","tag-leo-felton","tag-salvage-vanguard-theater","tag-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37339","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=37339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63277,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37339\/revisions\/63277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}