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at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa
Time of Women
Belarus Free Theatre
January 19, 20 and 21 at 7:30 p.m. Studio Performance Space
January 19, 20 and 21 at 7:30 p.m. Studio Performance Space
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| Belarus Free Theatre: Time of Women. Photo SCFTA |
Written by Nicolai Khalezin and Natalia Kaliada Director Nicolai Khalezin
Performed in Russian with English subtitles
The world's most provocative theatre company presents a story of three women who were all imprisoned for speaking truth to power during their country’s fraudulent elections in 2010.
A story of three women at
the forefront of the movement for a democratic Belarus with an
unflinching dedication to the truth. Iryna Khalip, the PEN Pinter
Prize-winning journalist, Natalya Radina, editor of the pro-human rights
news site Charter 97, and political activist Nasta Palazhanka were all
imprisoned at the time of the fraudulent presidential elections of 2010.
Time of Women celebrates their refusal to be silenced, reminding us
that when freedoms are curtailed, survival comes at a price. Belarus
Free Theatre was founded in 2005 in response to the censorship of
freedom of expression in Belarus. As some of the most outspoken critics
of Belarus’s repressive regime, its founding members had to be smuggled
out of the country and have been in exile as political refugees in the
UK since 2011. The cast remains in Minsk and continues to create theater
underground, directed over Skype.Performed in Russian with English subtitles
The world's most provocative theatre company presents a story of three women who were all imprisoned for speaking truth to power during their country’s fraudulent elections in 2010.
Recommended for mature audiences.
Latin Standards
Marga Gomez
January 19, 20 and 21 at 8:00 p.m.
Judy Morr Theater
January 19, 20 and 21 at 8:00 p.m.
Judy Morr Theater
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| Marga Gomez: Latin Standards - Photo by Kent Taylor |
Direct from its 2017 world premiere at The Public Theater’s Under The Radar Festival, Latin Standards delivers nostalgia and relevance with a comic edge in a loving and funny true story of perseverance and creative addiction passed down from immigrant father to lesbian daughter.
In Latin Standards, Marga Gomez, the driven adult child of a Cuban entertainer, defies reason by producing a hipster comedy night at a struggling Latino drag queen club during San Francisco’s gentrification crisis. Between vivid portrayals of characters from her upbringing in 1960’s Manhattan to present day San Francisco, Gomez sardonically ponders the ballads (or Latin Standards) penned by her late father Willy Chevalier: a comedian/producer/entrepreneur and composer of dance tunes that reveled in jealousy and obsession. Latin Standards will mark Gomez’s return visit to Segerstrom Center’s Off Center Festival after her success with her play Lovebirds in 2015. Marga Gomez is a GLAAD Award-winning writer and performer of 12 solo plays, which have been presented at The Public Theater, La Mama Experimental Theater Club, Dixon Place and more. Stand-up comedy appearances include LOGO’s One Night Stand, Comedy Central’s Out There, and HBO’s Comic Relief.
In Latin Standards, Marga Gomez, the driven adult child of a Cuban entertainer, defies reason by producing a hipster comedy night at a struggling Latino drag queen club during San Francisco’s gentrification crisis. Between vivid portrayals of characters from her upbringing in 1960’s Manhattan to present day San Francisco, Gomez sardonically ponders the ballads (or Latin Standards) penned by her late father Willy Chevalier: a comedian/producer/entrepreneur and composer of dance tunes that reveled in jealousy and obsession. Latin Standards will mark Gomez’s return visit to Segerstrom Center’s Off Center Festival after her success with her play Lovebirds in 2015. Marga Gomez is a GLAAD Award-winning writer and performer of 12 solo plays, which have been presented at The Public Theater, La Mama Experimental Theater Club, Dixon Place and more. Stand-up comedy appearances include LOGO’s One Night Stand, Comedy Central’s Out There, and HBO’s Comic Relief.
Latin Standards has been workshopped
in 2016 in New York at Dixon Place and in San Francisco/Bay Area at “One For
All Festival” at Douglas Morrison Theater Hayward, Art Saves Lives Gallery on
Castro, Lunada at Galeria De La Raza, The Marsh, Brian Copeland's Best Of Solo
San Francisco Series, Solo Sundays at StageWerx and Sparkarts Gallery.
Recommended for mature
audiences.
FREE
Choir! Choir! Choir!
January 25, 2017 at 8:00 p.m.
Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall
Nobu Adilman and Daveed Goldman,
co-founders
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| Choir! Choir! Choir! - Photo by Vanessa Heins |
You can be both performer and audience with this spectacular communal
musical experience!
Be a part of the fun as we form an inclusive pop song-singing public
choir.
The international singing phenomenon was founded by Nobu Adilman and
Daveed Goldman. Based in Toronto, this unique collective exemplifies the best
of creativity, collaboration, and community building. Off Center Festival
participants will have the opportunity to be part of a large community choir
whose repertoire will include a variety of pop songs.
Choir! Choir! Choir! is free but a ticket is required to reserve your
space.
Justin Vivian Bond Shows Up
Justin
Vivian Bond
Jan 27 and 28 at 8:00 p.m.
Samueli Theater
Jan 27 and 28 at 8:00 p.m.
Samueli Theater
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| Justin Vivian Bond Shows Up - Photo by David Kimelman |
You’re in for a treat (and more than a few tricks) with the legendary twisted wit and songful stylings of the trans-genre artist and icon.
Mx Justin Vivian Bond is a trans-genre artist living in New York City. As a performer both on and Off-Broadway, Mx Bond has received numerous accolades, winning an Obie (2001), a Bessie (2004), a Tony nomination (2007), the Ethyl Eichelberger Award (2007), The Peter Reed Foundation Grant and a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant for Artists. V authored the Lambda Literary Award winning memoir TANGO: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels (The Feminist Press, 2011).
Films include John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus (2006), Sunset Stories (2012), Imaginary Heroes (2004) and Fanci's Persuasion (1995). Solo exhibitions of JVB's watercolors, sculptural installations and live art have been presented by Participant, Inc. (NYC, 2011), Art Market Provincetown (2014), and Vitrine (London, 2015). Albums include Kiki and Herb: Do You Hear What We Hear?, Kiki and Herb Will Die For You at Carnegie Hall, Dendrophile, and Silver Wells.
Films include John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus (2006), Sunset Stories (2012), Imaginary Heroes (2004) and Fanci's Persuasion (1995). Solo exhibitions of JVB's watercolors, sculptural installations and live art have been presented by Participant, Inc. (NYC, 2011), Art Market Provincetown (2014), and Vitrine (London, 2015). Albums include Kiki and Herb: Do You Hear What We Hear?, Kiki and Herb Will Die For You at Carnegie Hall, Dendrophile, and Silver Wells.
Recommended for mature audiences.
Off Center Lounge
Leatherby’s Café Rouge (Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall)
Opens at 9 p.m.
The Off Center Lounge in Leatherby’s Café Rouge returns for Off Center Festival 2016. Audiences can mix and mingle with fellow audience members and Off Center artists. It’s rare opportunity to talk one-on-one with the creators and performers of these thought provoking works and pose those questions that oftentimes go unanswered. A special low-cost menu will be available starting at 9 p.m.
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