Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
By Kristina Wong
Directed by Katie Pearl
Incisive writer and performer Kristina Wong mixes sharp humor and psychology in Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, a swear-to-god-not-autobiographical, serio-comic portrayal of the high incidence of anxiety, depression and mental illness among Asian American women. Tangling, spinning, and mixing yarns, she asks: Which came first? The sky-high suicides of Asian American women? The maddening world? And when the heck do we get to climax? Wong’s irreverent and provocative work has given her a national cult following for “politically charged art with unapologetic humor.” –Bitch Magazine.
Knitters—cuckoo and not—are invited to knit in the audience during the shows.
Wong Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a National Performance Network Creation Fund Project commissioned by Asian Arts Initiative and La Peña Cultural Center. Funding for Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest has also been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Ford Foundation, La Peña’s New Works Fund supported by The James Irvine Foundation, and the Center for Cultural Innovation’s Investing in Artists Grant. Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is also a Project of Creative Capital.
Kristina Wong is a nationally presented solo performer, writer, actor, educator, culture jammer, and filmmaker. Described by the East Bay Express as “brutal but hilarious… a woman who takes life’s absurdities very seriously,” her body of performance work includes short and full-length solo performance works, outrageous street theater stunts and pranks, subversive internet installations, and plays and sketch comedy.
Opening Night Reception sponsored by
CHINDIAN CAFE
chindiancafe.com
Post-performance discussion following Friday and Saturday performances.
CHECK OUT A 5-MINUTE CLIP OF THE SHOW BELOW!
Kristina will also be holding a workshop:
Playing with Different Performance Tongues
Saturday, May 2 from 12-2pm
at the Pangea World Theater Studio
You don’t have to be the best actor, singer, or dancer to tell an amazing story. Finding the honest place and dabbling between different disciplines might be where you find your strongest voice. Sometimes your award-worthy performance may work best offstage for an unsuspecting audience.
Be dressed to move! In a non-judgmental space, participants will play with movement, text, visuals and working in site-specific contexts to forge a new performance language all their own.
Suitable for: Ages 18 and up
$25 for workshop and a ticket to Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Call and reserve your space in the workshop now: (612) 203-1088
SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR MEDIA SPONSOR:
Pangea World Theater is an NPN Partner of the National Performance Network (NPN). This program is supported in part by a grant from the NPN Community Fund. Major contributors of NPN include the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency), the MetLife Foundation, and the Nathan Cummings Foundation.
This project is also made possible in part by a grant from the National Performance Network’s Performance Residency Program. Major contributors of the National Performance Network include the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency), Altria and the Nathan Cummings Foundation. For more information: www.npnweb.org.
Special thanks also to The Yarnery for their donation of yarn for the show!
