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Theater for the New City Presents
Big Flower Eater
Thursday, February 07, 2013 through Sunday, February 24, 2013
Strange things happen when three Asian-American women rewind the strings that tie them to their secret shamanistic past.
Length: 1 hr 30 mins
Intermission: None
Seating: General Admission
You choose your seats when you get to the theater.
A whimsical collage of folktale, ritual, dance and historical text, BIG FLOWER EATER is a devised multimedia play that explores the untold history of women in Asia through shamanism in three different cultures: Hmong, Taiwanese and Korean.
In the play, a young Taiwanese-American woman pastes her grandmother’s fortunes on her bathroom wall, setting off a host of unearthly activities in her small Lower East Side apartment. The ghost of her eccentric grandmother takes up residence in the ceiling causing a constant leak and attracting the lost soul of an epileptic Hmong girl. The mysterious malfunctions of the bathroom are finally explained with a visit from a Korean-American friend, whose disturbing receptivity to the spirits leads to a revelation regarding the long tradition of shamanism in her now-Christian family.
With an astonishing performance by traditional Korean drummer Vongku Pak!
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