PEELING: Under the Skin
A Festival of One-Act Plays

Peeling’s 2003 one-act festival, Under the Skin, will take you from lust and economics in a Vietnam “hugging bar” to love and racial politics in a New York club, from gesticulations at an open mike coffeehouse to gyrations at a swingers’ sex party. It examines the trials of relationships with drug addicts, non-committers and of course, playwrights. In telling tales both familiar and foreign, humorous and heartfelt, Asian American yet universal, the theater ensemble Peeling presents its most ambitious work yet–one-act plays that delve deeper than ever into the psyches of Asian Americans as they face love, lust, identity politics, culture clashes and a lot of e-mail in New York City and beyond. Intimately personal yet crafted for drama, these eight stories will cut down to the bone and into your imagination–regardless of your skin color.

Program A

No Sweet Surrender written and directed by Steve Huang
An Asian American couple confront love and racism, after a NYC nightclub encounter turns ugly.

Still Breathing by Celena Cipriaso, directed by Celena Cipriaso and Rich Kiamco
An innocent teenager begins to uncover the shadier layers of the mysterious youth who captivates yet evades her.

Endings: A Collection of Love Stories Gone Wrong and Two Commercials by Nora Chau, directed by Celena Cipriaso and Erwin Falcon
When love goes south – A real, surreal, bittersweet and sometimes downright painfully funny look at breakups. Which ending is yours??

Program B

The Virginity Monologues by Aileen Cho, directed by Dan Bacalzo
A Korean American woman’s quest for personal and familial resolution leads her to New York City, where Freudian memories and sexual adventures await.

Say Something by Dan Bacalzo, directed by Aileen Cho
Is he really the One? Tackling monogamy, domesticity and love from top to bottom, a gay couple explore the matrix of a long-term relationship–largely through a staged version of themselves.

Program C

Unaccessorized by Rich Kiamco, directed by Dan Bacalzo
A gay Filipino diva escapes the cornfields of Illinois and begins a coast-to-coast odyssey among millionaires, con artists and salmon-colored fabrics.

Hugging Beer Bar by Ngo Thanh Nhan, directed by Erwin Falcon
A Vietnamese businessman mixes romance and capitalism at a bar where girls make a living as best they can.

Oriental Playas written and directed by J.P. Chan
In the sequel to Peeling’s 2002 hit “Vampire Geishas of Brooklyn,” a motley crew of Asian American performers search for love, or at least sex, via slam poetry and on-line dating.

SCHEDULE

Week 1

Program A: Thursday, July 10 at 8pm; Saturday, July 12 at 8pm
Program B: Friday, July 11 at 8pm; Sunday, July 13 at 3pm

Week 2

Program B: Thursday, July 17 at 8pm; Saturday, July 19 at 8pm
Program C: Friday, July 18 at 8pm; Sunday, July 20 at 3pm

Week 3

Program A: Friday, July 25 at 8pm; Sunday, July 27 at 3pm
Program C: Thursday, July 24 at 8pm; Saturday, July 26 at 8pm

A 3-show festival pass is available for $30 up through July 13 only. Purchase the pass for any performance during Week 1, and Peeling will contact you to set up your remaining two shows.