Saturday, July 21
19:00
"Suns are Suns"
@ Meta House
SUNS ARE SUNS is a solo theatre piece based on factual accounts of children and women who were victims of sex trafficking. The work uses text, Butoh and impressionistic movement to explore multi-layered responses to trauma. Dawn Akemi Saito (writer and performer) is an ArtWorks for Freedom Contributing Artist. She collaborates with director Maria Mileaf to give shape to this production.
SUNS ARE SUNS is a dramatic portrayal of Samnang, a Southeast Asian woman who was abducted as a child and trafficked as a sex slave. Years later, as she struggles to survive in NYC as a nanny and domestic worker, events trigger flashbacks to her own traumatized childhood and the daughter who was taken from her as a child. The young girl she looks after becomes a surrogate. Samnang’s employer is a busy and demanding single mother, indifferent to and dismissive of Samnang’s life outside of her childcare responsibilities. Samnang’s deep-seated need to alleviate her horrific memories inevitably collide with these responsibilities, culminating in a strangled cry against the deadening of the soul.
