About This Show
Eyes of the Heart achieves the admirable, and sometimes improbable task of presenting a devastating condition in a most elegant and poetic way. This production is based on actual oral histories that Catherine Filloux compiled over five years of working with Cambodian refugee women at St. Rita’s Refugee Center in Bronx, New York. It is about the psychosomatic blindness that afflicted predominantly middle-aged women who witnessed and survived the most horrific crimes under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. It is the story of one such woman who comes to California to live with her brother’s family and begins the complex process of healing.
Produced by National Asian American Theatre Company, Inc. (NAATCO). Kay Matschullat directs.
There are additional performances on Saturday, Oct 23 at 2pm and Oct 30 at 3pm.
