She’ll probably kill me for posting this, but what the hell: Sam Chanse is a not-so-frequent poster to 8Asians. That being said, she single-handedly has the best reason for not having time to write or do pretty much anything: She’s been writing and performing in her one-woman show, Lydia’s Funeral Video.
A one-woman show. I congratulate myself if I have the energy to go downstairs and take my clothes out of the dryer.
Here’s the synopsis:
In the not-so-distant future, when abortions are legal only within twenty-eight days of conception and Paris Hilton has embarked on yet another reality show, apocalypse-obsessed Lydia Clark-Lin is doggedly pursuing a career in monetary units when a mysterious being claiming to be an hours-old embryo invades her dreams, announces that Lydia is both pregnant and dying, and commands her to create a video to be screened at her funeral before terminating the pregnancy. As the embryonic orders continue (“talk to the celebrity abortion doctor!” “interview your mother!” “do some standup comedy!”) and Lydia seems to be losing her job and her mind, a deadline fast approaches, the end of the world beckons, and hecklers loom on the San Francisco horizon.
Holy shit. Her show runs from Thursdays to Saturdays, January 31 to February 16, 2008 at The Dark Room Theater in San Francisco’s Mission District. There are pages for the event at upcoming.org as well as on Facebook. I’ll tell you know what I think of the show once I go see it, hopefully sometime this week.
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8Asians.com » Last Week to watch Lydia’s Funeral Video: An Asian American/Asian Canadian Blog wrote:
[...] I’ve blogged about it before, but Lydia’s Funeral Video, Sam’s one-woman show, wraps on Saturday in San Francisco. Sam pinged me over Instant Messenger just now and we talked a little bit about the show: Ernie: how has the show been doing so far? Sam: oh, it’s been really great, actually Sam: the response has been incredibly positive, and it’s been a lot of fun to do Sam: there were two nights with low attendance, but still good response. Sam: if you want to read a bit about the show, my friend claire blogs for kqed Sam: and mel from hyphen posted something on the hyphen blog Sam: one piece of feedback i’ve consistently received is that the promo stuff didn’t adequately convey what the show would be like…which i knew would be challenging at the time [...]
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