Emblem – by Shyamala Moorty
Synopsis: The post 9/11 South Asian-American body becomes beholden to U.S. Homeland Security and molded by patriotic nationalism. The performer, once a South Asian woman, becomes the Emblem of the US: the predatory bald eagle, as it soars into the boundless space of the future, leaving a trail of carcasses behind
Setting: Urban neighborhood in the U.S.
Time Period: 2001
Cast Size: 1
Casting: South Asian
This Play is: Unpublished
Production History:
- Los Angeles Women’s Theater Festival, El Portal Theater, Hollywood, CA (2008)
- Campus theater, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona CA (2005)
- Artwallah, Barnsdall Gallery Theater, Hollywood, CA (2005)
- What’s 9/11 Got to Do With It?, Highways Performance Space, CA (2005)
Review Quotes:
“…I saw in her fitful, jarring expressiveness played out with an American flag a far more topical and tortured critique of American militarism.” -Deborah Klugman, LA Weekly, March 31, 2008