Articles Tagged With: Yasmeen Mahdi

Bounce at Strand Theater 📷 Shealyn Jae Photography

Bounce at Strand Theater Company

 

author: Erin Tarpley

 

“You’re my wife and I’ve grown to like you”

Relationships are complicated.  Familial, romantic, religious, friendships, cultural, marital… you name it.  Nothing is ever completely easy.  But these different types of relationships have a way of further complicating things when they come together in a sort of spider’s web of rules and expectations that can both entwine and suffocate any individual.  And in Somnia Mari Feral’s world premiere production of Bounce,

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Her Portmanteau at The Strand Theatre 📷 Shealyn Jae Photography

Her Portmanteau at The Strand Theater

 

author: Chris Pence

Photographs & Memories: Her Portmanteau at Strand Theatre Company

Culture shock is a very real side effect of immigration, to which family can be both a cure and an agitator, in varying degrees. As a first-generation Nigerian-American storyteller and educator, Mfoniso Udofia knows these struggles intimately, sharing her understanding through Her Portmanteau, a profound dive into the hearts and minds of a family working to find connection despite a divide carved by 30 years and 5,300 miles of distance.

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