Dry swallow

Author / Creator

Baisch, Lucas, author

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Summary

"Dry Swallow is a play made up of three intertwining narratives, all trapped in the confines of a shipping container as playing space. Chula, parks her lawn chair on a Boyle Heights street corner a...

"Dry Swallow is a play made up of three intertwining narratives, all trapped in the confines of a shipping container as playing space. Chula, parks her lawn chair on a Boyle Heights street corner as she defends her makeshift bodega from being intercepted by local competition. Sik coerces her pregnant girlfriend, Dori, into looting from the pharmacy chain she works at. Childhood friends Nasir and Porter, now an established performance artist and curator, question the exploitation of ethnic heritage and the use of medical procedure as artistic practice. These stories weave in and out of one another, sitting in a pool of construction zone soundscapes and safety cone demarcations of space, provoking questions around consumption, surrogacy, and substance abuse. Lucas Baisch's play was the recipient of The Kennedy Center's KCACTF 2020 Latinx Playwriting Award"-- Provided by publisher.

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