Two performances only: Game of Life

SUZ Productions and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center
Present
GAME OF LIFE
A premiere performance
written and performed by SUZ Takeda
and directed by Ellen Sebastian Chang
Friday & Saturday, May 19 & 20 at 8 PM
at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center
388 Ninth Street in Oakland, CA

Join SUZ as she spins the wheel, moves three spaces ahead and journeys through her version of the Game of Life. In her solo debut, Oakland native, SUZ Takeda, examines the bicultural and bilingual life of a Japanese American woman; mixing comedy and drama in poignant reflections on the need to belong, and the search and acceptance of one’s cultural identity. More details available on the internet at www.daSUZ.com .

Press is invited to both performances, May 19th and May 20th. To reserve your press tickets, call Susan Morales at (415) 845-1009 or (707) 585-2618 or the Oakland Asian Cultural Center at (510) 208-6080. Please provide the name in which the reservation should be held and the name of your organization.

DATES/PERFORMANCES: Friday, May 19, 2000 @ 8 p.m.
Saturday, May 20, 2000 @ 8 p.m.

TICKET PRICES: $5.00 for Seniors/Students
$10.00 for general

TICKET INFO & RESERVATIONS Oakland Asian Cultural Center (510) 208-6080

LOCATION: Oakland Asian Cultural Center
(Edward W. Chin Auditorium)
388 - 9th Street, Oakland
(between Webster/Franklin in
Oakland’s Chinatown)


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SUZ Productions

GAME OF LIFE

SUZ Takeda has performed with the Asian American Theater Company since 1992 (Trojan Women, Uncle Tadao, Waking The Red Dragon, No Big Hair Please, Yellow Fever, Culture Clash with Loco Locals, Suzie Wong Is Dead!, and Dragon Lady vs. Pochahontas). She has performed with Asiantics Productions (Fairytales With A Slant, Traces, and Reconstituted Women), BRAVA! for Women in the Arts (Taking Shapes Series) and her own comedy skit group, Rice Cracker Productions. SUZ is the grant recipient of an AT&T/Asian American Arts Foundation Theater Grant, The City of Oakland Cultural Arts Funding, and CASH -a grants program of Theatre Bay Area designed by artists for artists.

Director Ellen Sebastian Chang, is a director, writer and creative consultant. She was the cofounder and artistic director of LIFE ON THE WATER, a national and internationally known presenting and producing organization at San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center from 1986 – 1995. She is a directing and producing consultant with the Zellerbach Family Fund. In June of 2000, Ms. Chang will stage the premiere of Jon Jang and James Newton’s tributary to Paul Robeson and Mei Lanfang called, “When Sorrow Turns To Joy”. She recently directed “Close Encounters of the Third World” a collaboration between Latina Theater Lab, 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors, Asian American Theater Company, and Culture Clash.


Oakland Asian Cultural Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting community programs that reflect the diversity of Asian American and Pacific Islander heritages, arts and cultures. It seeks to foster cross-cultural understanding and provide facilities where all can learn and practice both traditional and modern Asian American and Pacific Islander forms of the arts and cultures.

CALENDAR EDITORS, PLEASE NOTE

SUZ Productions and Oakland Asian Cultural Center (OACC) co-presents SUZ Takeda’s GAME OF LIFE, written/performed by SUZ Takeda, directed by Ellen Sebastian Chang.

Two performances only, Friday/Saturday, May 19 & 20, 2000

Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 -9th Street, Oakland (between Webster/Franklin in Oakland’s Chinatown)

Tickets, priced at $5.00 (Senior/Students) and $10.00 (General), are available by calling OACC at 510/208-6080.