Check out PAPA's newly articulated Mission, Vision and Values from our Strategic Planning Committee
After an amazing '21 summer of dreaming and visioning have come up with the following to share with the General Body:
We are proud to share the PAPA Organizing Branch Problem and Vision Statements. These two statements were created to act as an internal compass to help guide the programming and other strategic work of the Organizing Committee, and as an external statement of our purpose and goals.
*These statements are not universal to all of PAPA's work. This is a living document that will evolve alongside the Organizing Committee. In that vein, we recognize that PAPA serves, represents and works alongside people with diverse and nuanced racialized identities. We use People of the Asian Diaspora as a placeholder for now knowing that we are actively working to construct more specific language around those identities.
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A new iteration of the Organizing Committee will soon be forming, with the purpose of beginning to strategically design and begin implementing programming for PAPA's general body in 2021.
2024 NEW PLAYS LINEUP
Nemesis On The Winds by Arthur Lee Robinson
Step back in time to 1900s Britain in this infectiously funny farce, MARJORIE IS DEAD. Inspired by Fry & Laurie and the works of P.G. Wodehouse, this play follows the outbreak of a deadly "coroner's virus" in the unsuspecting Tilbury family, whose lives are as convoluted as they are in peril. As the virus spreads and claims the life of young Marjorie, the family's primary antagonist becomes the only thing that may unite them. Watch as the doctor, the Colonel, the solicitor, and a roguish ne’er-do-well run circles around each other in a hilarious whirlwind of mixed-up identities, flaming passions, overheard conversations, and misunderstandings. With impossible dreams, a union that could never be, and a deadly virus on the loose, danger lurks around every corner.
MARJORIE IS DEAD was a semifinalist at the 2022 Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights conference. According to MD Theatre Guide, "Shetty's intriguing and impressive command of the seemingly lost art of farce makes MARJORIE IS DEAD funny, subversive, current, and yet somehow a throwback at the same time." Don't miss your chance to experience this side-splitting tribute to the incomparable comedic style of P.G. Wodehouse.
Abandonware by Joseph Ahmed
Ava's been streaming herself playing retro video games online and people are starting to tune in. As her online community grows, she’s shaken by the discovery that her (estranged) and (dead) father used to make video games when he was her age. And she’s…in one of them? Of course she’s going to play it. Just once. Okay, maybe just one more time.
Pure White by Lexi Thammavong
Luna and Ethan don’t remember what happened last night. When they wake in their messy Miami apartment, there’s nothing around but the usual Xanax and cocaine. That is until an unexpected (and unwelcome) guest arrives, and soon discovers that none of them can leave. Can our unlikely trio escape the darkness, or will it consume them?
Content Warning: Pure White explores topics of addiction, death, and mental illness. The characters abuse prescription as well as illicit substances. The play also mentions Sex Work and features a non-sexual romantic relationship with a large age gap (18 & 63). Nothing physical occurs between the two characters. There is a brief allusion to sexual assault.April 3 at 7pm
Mock Trial by Claris Park
Being part of a trial advocacy team is important, not just for a law student's resume, but for networking. It's where the best and brightest in law school gather, put all their brain cells together, and dazzle competition judges with their next-level legal reasoning and courtroom presence. To be a part of TrialAd, you have to be special - very special - and right - very, very right. No one (not their mom, any higher power, and definitely not their coach) is more right than a TrialAd competitor. This usually works just fine when dealing with TrialAd hypotheticals. But when life and law school shenanigans and politics spill over into the practice room, can someone be more "right" than someone else who is also technically "right"?April 23 at 7pm7 hours between April 9-April 23Maas Building
Years of the Chicken by Daniel Kim
The play tells the story of Korean American television sitcom writer and producer, Donald Lee, who is the creator of the hit sitcom "Year of the Chicken," based on Donald's experiences in high school in 1981. The timeline leaps through a series of Years of the Chicken (i.e., Year of the Rooster), starting in 1945, which is the year that Donald's father flees his North Korean village for the South.
Cole Face by Jacinta Yelland
Cole Face is an interactive solo show witnessing the current climate crisis through the eyes of a baby koala and two coal miners. Cole, a talking infant koala, is recovering from severe burns at a wildlife sanctuary in the fire-ravaged Australian outback. As bushfires encroach she embarks on a quest to rescue her best friend, a 1000-year-old eucalyptus tree. In a parallel narrative, thousands of meters underground a gas explosion collapses an active coal mine trapping two miners and igniting a fire. Flames spread along the labyrinth of tunnels towards the miners who contemplate their imminent death caused by the hole they drilled. The show, inspired by the 2019 Australian bushfires and Australia’s economic dependence on fossil fuels, moves the audience from laughter to tears by following two isolated yet intertwined experiences of climate change — the stories of animals and trees that perished in the 2019 bushfires and of people whose livelihoods depend on environmental destruction. Cole Face uses documentary theatre, clown, audience interaction, manipulation of light, and magic to immerse the audience in the destruction of nature, history, story, home, and community with the hope of shedding light on the ramifications of our current way of life and provoking change.
Content Warnings - climate disaster, disfigurement, being trapped in a small, confined space.
