Shafrika, The White Girl
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jun 21, 2009
Closed Jun 28, 2009
Opened Jun 21, 2009
Closed Jun 28, 2009
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
With a name like Shafrika, it's gotta be a blonde girl from Cambridge, MA, right? In Jaradoa Theater's joyous new musical by Anika Larsen, discover how a unique and movingly quirky exploration of race, identity and family uncovers the truth about growing up with Black, White, Asian, Latino, and Native American brothers and sisters. 10 kids. 5 races. One family. Go.
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People must have been telling Anika Larsen all her life that her story would make a terrific show. The blonde-haired, blue-eyed Broadway belter (who will soon join the cast of Avenue Q) was brought up as one of four natural children in a household that also included six adopted siblings of various ethnicities. With dramatic fodder like that, it's rather surprising that
Shafrika, The White Girl, now playing at the Vineyard Theater in a Jaradoa Theatre production, could end up being so colorless.
The main problem is that Larsen doesn't know how to handle the contradictions inherent in family life; for example, how can people love and yet hurt each other or how you can be on the inside and [...]