ShanghaiPRIDE2014 IDENTITY series Review

This year ShanghaiPRIDE theater focuses on the topic of IDENTITY. Identity is such a basic and ubiquitous human concept that we often take it for granted. When the truth you feel about your personal identity matches the truth other people assume about you, it creates harmony in life that most of us fail to appreciate. However, when you hide from your lover your birth gender, when your partner suspects you are attracted to someone of the same or different sex, when you don’t like who you are, when you can’t answer for yourself the question “Who am I?” You must either live in perpetual turmoil or undertake the difficult quest of aligning your self-identity with your public identity. We explore three facets of this struggle through three plays in our IDENTITY series.

When a gay man suddenly loves a woman, when a wife discovers her husband is gay, when a person’s appearance is not true to who the person really is, then, who are they? And you… have you “identified” yourself yet?

COCK

It is a story about a gay man who suddenly falls for a woman. He struggles with his love for this woman and his love for his boyfriend. Between the pressures placed upon him in society and his sexual identity, his involvement in this triangle leaves him confused of his sense of self.


I love you, but suddenly love her.

We lived together for a long time, so he should be with me.
I would like to live with him. We’ll be much happier.

Who am I? Is this important?

Special thanks to East West Theatre for their continuous support of ShanghaiPRIDE 2014!

Izzie&Irving

It was 80’s in Shanghai. Izzie and Irving met each other, fell in love and had a happy marriage. Until Irving met Izzet, and it tears everything apart. “Izzie/Izzet, your hands are so soft” this farewell was once so comforting but now has become a painful insult. The play has a remarkable ending, but the story is not over yet. We hope that our fellow LGBT community will contribute to how this story should end.

Izzie met Irving by chance with A-Hua, and they fell in love.

Irving and Izzet fell in love at first sight. “Izzet, your hands are so soft.”

A-Hua likes Irving but she couldn’t get what she wanted. So she gossiped as an attack.

When Izzie found what Irving and Izzet was doing, everything was over.


Thanks to This Love Drama Club for their fantastic performance which triggered thoughts about IDENTITY. See you next year!

Rendezvous

Tonight at SDU, Rendezvous shared transgender community story to us.

Christie Koletto’s marriage to Julian has hit a major roadblock thanks to her inability to satisfy his desire to expand the family.

Sylvester, a charming stranger going through a major transition, enters Christie’s world hoping to be her man.

A twist of fate will bring all three people together, calling into question their sense of identity, and their lives will never be the same again.

Rendezvous will have another performance next Friday. If you would like to know how Christie, Julian and Sylvester settle their relationships, please join us and RSVP via shanghaipride@gmail.com.

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