Type/Caste
June 10 & 11
AAACC, 7:30pm
Rotimi Agbabiaka/Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe
$15-$20 sliding scale
Friday, June 10
Brown Paper Ticket Link for June 10: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2546826
Saturday, June 11
Brown Paper Ticket Link for June 11: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2546834
A queer, black actor dreams of a dazzling career on the American stage but must contend with an industry largely unprepared for applicants who are not white heterosexuals. Using monologue, song, dance and drag Rotimi embodies, explores, and exposes the battles artists fight in the exclusive world of mainstream American theatre.
Drawing from Rotimi’s experience as a professional actor, Type/Caste portrays the peaks and pitfalls of a young artist’s quest for success and raises the questions: What is true artistic success and how can it be achieved in an art form that has been overrun by commercial concerns? How can an artist create outsider art in a profession that overwhelmingly favors insiders? How does our American brand of profits-over-people capitalism threaten the very soul of the performing arts?
Discipline: Music/Performance
