Open Wound

The Center for Immigrant Resources and Community Arts (CIRCA) and Pintig Cultural Group take on a gender-specific project focusing on gripping, endearing and funny stories about women in Open Wound, a collection of women monologues.

An immigrant caregiver is torn between sending money back home and taking care of an elderly man, a young woman regains liberation from a painful childhood past, a domestic worker recollects memories as a wife and mother moments after she gets hanged for murder, a young mother intimates her struggle raising a son, a mother tells her discomfort over her daughter’s ‘coming out’
– these are stories both funny, poignant and riveting all lined up to reveal the intimate and complex nuances of womanhood.

Compiled from the writings of JB Capino, Thelma Virata de Castro, Lani Montreal, Lorely Trinidad, Cary Wong and Lauren D. Yee, Open Wound takes a closer look at the multilayered facets of women issues across race, class and gender lines.

Directed by Giau Truong and Louie Pascasio, the monologues feature Je Cacnio, Mathilda de Dios, Joey Flores, Gabrielle Lingat, Evelyn Masbaum, Lani Montreal, Christina Thelemaque and Nichelle Winters.