{"id":55075,"date":"2017-11-07T04:55:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T04:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55075"},"modified":"2017-11-07T04:55:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T04:55:05","slug":"the-one-woman-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55075","title":{"rendered":"The one woman show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/cities\/chennai\/2017\/oct\/13\/the-one-woman-show-1673573.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The one woman show<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Indian Express<\/a><br \/>\nChennai, Tamil Nadu, India<br \/>\n2017-10-14<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ablnaya Kalyanasundaram<\/strong>, <em>Chennai Express<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/cities\/chennai\/2017\/oct\/13\/the-one-woman-show-1673573.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.newindianexpress.com\/uploads\/user\/ckeditor_images\/article\/2017\/10\/13\/the.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarshallTash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Natasha Marshall\u2019s<\/a> solo play <em>Half-breed<\/em> aims to start a social discussion about racism<\/li>\n<li>She also attempts to reach out to victims of racism through her 60-minute play<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chennai: Racism, whether casual or blatant, is a difficult topic to express by those on the receiving end. Despair at the unfairness of it and a perpetual burning question of \u2018Why me?\u2019 prevents many from expressing anger and standing up against it. Born in a small village in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wiltshire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wiltshire, England<\/a>, in a predominantly white area, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarshallTash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Natasha Marshall<\/a> has come a long way from the ostracised young girl to award-shortlisted playwright and actor. In the city to tell us her story through theatre, she speaks to CE about Half-breed.<\/p>\n<p><em>Half-breed<\/em> started as a three-minute poem. Natasha used to perform the poem at open mic nights and poetry nights in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">London<\/a>. Gradually she built it to a play, thanks to a writing programme with two theatre groups, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sohotheatre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soho theatre<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Talawa+Theatre+Company&amp;ie=&amp;oe=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talawa Theatre Company<\/a>, the co-producers of <em>Half-breed<\/em>. \u201cI was a 26-year old, who moved back home to live with my grandma. I felt lost. I decided to write the play, and all I wanted was for someone to give me a chance, and they did. This play has literally changed my life in many ways,\u201d Natasha smiles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/cities\/chennai\/2017\/oct\/13\/the-one-woman-show-1673573.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DMEq-1VVoAAvZU7.jpg:large\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A one woman show, Natasha combines a total of seven characters in the 60-minute play. She plays the role of Jasmine, a young mixed-race woman who lives in a little village in the west of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/England\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">England<\/a>, with dreams of becoming an actor; she is also the racist character. \u201cI play my whole village. I play the racist and also the woman facing it. I think that makes the show more interesting and delivers a stronger message,\u201d she quips. \u201cI feel all the characters are a piece of me. Ultimately nobody\u2019s perfect \u2014 we all can say ignorant things.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/cities\/chennai\/2017\/oct\/13\/the-one-woman-show-1673573.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A one woman show, Natasha combines a total of seven characters in the 60-minute play. She plays the role of Jasmine, a young mixed-race woman who lives in a little village in the west of England, with dreams of becoming an actor; she is also the racist character. \u201cI play my whole village. I play the racist and also the woman facing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,395,125,8,23674,10],"tags":[27584,81,27548,27583,27582],"class_list":["post-55075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-autobiography","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-uk","tag-ablnaya-kalyanasundaram","tag-england","tag-natasha-marshall","tag-new-indian-express","tag-the-new-indian-express"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55075","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=55075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55076,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55075\/revisions\/55076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}