PuSh Festival 2020: Anywhere But Here by Carmen Aguirre with Shad
Anywhere But Here is a psycho-social-spiritual-physical journey based on the relationship to land
Date/Time: Feb 15 2020, 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Vancouver, Vancouver Playhouse | Event calendar600 Hamilton St
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Cost: $20.00
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Electric Company Theatre (Canada) in Association with Vancouver Civic Theatres and PTC.
“A marvelous machine of creativity” - The Globe and Mail
From North to South, a family reverses the refugee’s path in this darkly humorous vision of exile. The action is set in 1979, along the border between the US and Mexico. There, a father and his two daughters drive in a chrome convertible. They’re returning to Chile from Canada, and as they travel, visions of the past and future surround them. Their encounters with people crossing—and guarding—the border range from the poignant to the comical to the fantastical, and the audience is privileged to their internal journeys as individuals as well as their external journey as a family unit.
Inventively staged, inflected by magic realism and boasting stunts, a terrific musical score and two rap tracks by Shad Kabango, Anywhere but Here pulls out all the stops in its portrayal of a Latinx family and its hopes, fears and fantasies. It’s a feverish commentary on the power of the state and the condition of statelessness, and as such it carries a special resonance today.
Post-Show Talkbacks: Feb 7, 12 (12pm), 13
Pre-Show Conversations: Feb 6, 11, 14
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