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Exclusion - Arena Stage

  • 23 Jun 2023
  • 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
  • Arena Stage
  • 9

Registration

Join APABA-DC and APABA-MD on June 23 for a night at the Arena Stage for the play, Exclusion. Tickets for members of APABA-DC and APABA-MD are comped at $40 per attendee.  Please register and bring cash/check to the event.

The Page Act of 1875 was the first of many Chinese Exclusion acts passed by the United States government, marking the end of open borders. The Page Act specifically barred Chinese women from entering the United States. Seven years after that, the Chinese Restriction Act, which is now known as the Chinese Exclusion Act, was signed into law, prohibiting the entry of all Chinese people into the United States. Kenneth Lin’s Exclusion explores these issues through a brave world of comedy, debate, and artistry. Set in present-day Hollywood, the land of storytelling, Exclusion puts a magnifying glass on the personalities and power structures that create the larger than life worlds we see on small and big screens. Each of Lin’s characters fight for control over which narrative gets told, whether it be on the screen for the world to hear, or in how each of their own stories play out in reality. Through the act of dramatizing history, audiences and communities are invited into the conversation beyond the role of a silent listener. They are asked to invest in the characters of a story beyond the lines of a textbook, and see them as active participants in the lives they might lead today.


Arena Stage

 1101 Sixth Street SW Washington, DC 20024

APABA-DC is an affiliate of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association.

APABA-DC

P.O. Box 27223

Washington, DC 20038

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