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Free Staged
Readings December 6 & 7
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Al Kasida Staged Reading Series Proudly Presents
Christopher Chen's Into the Numbers
The Al Kasida Staged
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A Play About Iris Chang
Directed by Joanie Schultz
Featuring Brent Barnes, Yosh Hayashi, Erik Kaiko, Devorah Richards, and Jennifer
Shin as Iris Chang
In 2004, Iris Chang, famed author of The Rape of Nanking, a
chronicle of one of the worst atrocities of the 20th Century, committed
suicide at the age of 36. Structured as an interview gone awry, Into the Numbers
explores the philosophical and psychological implications of
researching genocide, as well as the toll media saturation plays in the
process. What begins as a standard lecture and interview soon descends
into a surreal nightmare. Ghosts from Chang's research appear and
characters shift personas, as the celebrated author tries desperately
to find order in the midst of mental chaos.
WHERE: Silk Road Theatre Project at The Historic Chicago
Temple Building
77 West Washington Street, Pierce Hall
WHEN: Saturday, December 6 at 8pm and Sunday, December 7 at 1pm.
COST: Free and open to the public.
RESERVATIONS: Reservations strongly recommended. Please call the box office at 312-857-1234 ext. 201 or email us at boxoffice@srtp.org. Be sure and mention the date you wish to attend and the number of seats you'd like to
reserve.
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PLAYWRIGHT CHRISTOPHER CHEN
Christopher Chen is a resident playwright at the Asian American Theater Company in San Francisco. His
play Into the Numbers was presented at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, The Lark and hotINK in New York, and Theatre Mu in Minneapolis,
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won a Ford Foundation Emerging Writers of Color Grant. Other plays include Anomienaulis (S.F. State Greenhouse) and Maya (Asian
American Theatre Company). His current project is The Window Age, to be produced at Central Works in Berkeley in 2009.
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Silk Road Theatre Project's Al Kasida Staged Reading Series is
Chicagoland's first and only staged reading series dedicated to plays
featuring characters of Asian, Middle Eastern, and
Mediterranean backgrounds.
 In Arabic, "al kasida" means
"the ode." The word is meant to evoke the rich tradition of
storytelling and epic poetry in the lands of the Silk Road. Just as
written and oral narratives helped convey the cultural and historical
realities of antiquity, Al Kasida Staged Reading Series promises to
illuminate for Chicago audiences the contemporary realities of
communities that are as vast and diverse as they are misunderstood.
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Silk Road Sojourns: The TV Show
New Episodes Premiere Saturday, December 6
 The third and fourth episodes of Silk
Road Sojourns the TV show, featuring Artistic Director Jamil Khoury and Executive Director Malik Gillani, will be broadcast back-to-back on
Chicago Cable Access Network (CAN-TV) Channel 21 this
Saturday, December 6, starting at 6pm. Episode 3 will also be replayed Friday, December 19 at 8:30pm, with Episode 4 airing the following Friday,
December 26, also at 8:30pm. The shows
will
be available at www.srtp.org/sojourns in the coming
weeks.
More Sojourns
Online
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Support SRTP
Testimonial Videos Available Online
Several Silk Road Theatre Project
patrons have recorded brief testimonial videos explaining why SRTP is important to them and what they do to support the company.
Visit www.srtp.org/support to view the videos and see what you can do to support
the
cause.
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 Follow the Silk Road to
the Only
Boutique Theatre in the Loop
Silk
Road Theatre
Project's performance
venue is a beautiful
and comfortable, fully-equipped, 99-seat flexible "brown box" theatre
in
Pierce Hall, located in The Historic Chicago Temple Building, 77 West
Washington Street (corner of Washington & Clark), right in the heart of Chicago's burgeoning Loop theatre district.
VENUE
"An elegantly lit, marble-floored, brass-and-oak-trimmed theater
complex, compatible with the [building's] neo-French Gothic
Architecture."
--The Chicago Reader
PARKING
Only $6 for Silk Road patrons
 System Parking at 230 West
Washington Street, at the northeast corner of Washington and Franklin streets, just
three blocks west of the
theatre. Be sure to ask the box office attendant for a parking coupon.
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
Silk
Road Theatre Project is within one to three blocks of all major CTA
"el" and subway lines, and is accessible by several major bus routes.
For CTA information call 312-836-7000 or visit www.transitchicago.com.
The theatre is also accessible by city and suburban Metra Train lines. For Metra information call 312-322-6777 or visit www.metrarail.com.
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Support Our Neighborhood Sponsors
These sponsors provide generous support for Silk Road throughout the year. Please help us show our appreciation by patronizing these
outstanding businesses.
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Silk Road Theatre Project
at The Historic Chicago Temple Building
77 West Washington Street | Pierce Hall | Chicago, IL 60602
info@srtp.org | 312-857-1234 | www.srtp.org |
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December 1st
| Free Staged Readings December 6 & 7
