UC Davis presents Talk Story, by Jeannie Barroga

TALK-STORY
by Jeannie Barroga
directed by Barbara Sellers-Young and Karen Shimasaka

EIGHT PERFORMANCES only at
The University of California at Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA

THURSDAY, OCT. 28 thru SUNDAY, NOV. 7, 1999
8:00pm $10 and $12

INFORMATION: 530-752-5863

This modern comic drama which premiered at TheatreWorks in 1992, TALK-STORY will be performed at UC-Davis's Department of Theatre and Dance, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, California. Playwright and TheatreWorks' Literary Manager Jeannie Barroga has had several productions since 1992 of TALK-STORY at Kumu Kuhua - Honolulu, Asian American Theatre Project - Berkeley, with workshops at Western Stage - Salinas, and Perseverance Theatre - Anchorage. The eight performances will be Thursdays thru Sundays, October 28 thru November 7, 1999 $6.00 to $11.00at 8:00pm. For more information, please call: 530-752-5863. Tickets are available at the door.

"Excellent production: 'Talk-Story' illuminates the tenuous line separating character from caricature. This is an entertaining and challenging production'" John Berger, Honolulu-Star Bulletin, January 1995

"[Talk-Story is] Vibrant. confronting discrimination with pride and humor, challenging [the] lingering prejudice...with fierce determination...her play is both revealing as a racial experience and a vivid character...an excellent new voice and perspective to Kumu Kahua's repertoire'" Joseph P. Rozmiarek, Honolulu Advertiser, January, 1995

"...one of the better original scripts produced locally...with enough wisdom and humor to render it all the more understandable to the outsider...entertaining..." Julia Smith, Palo Alto Weekly, April 1992

"The stunning effect of...'time warps' stirs...an empathy for the struggle of spirit. Barroga is brilliant with words. Her dialog is sincere and intense...her treatment of the theme is insightful." Linda P. Jacob, Philippine News, April 1992

"...[Barroga's] intricate layering of [stories, exaggerations, dreams...flashbacks] never falters..." Beverly R. Pichache, Asian Week, April 1992

"The reputable reviewers of Honolulu agree on its excellence on all aspects of the theatre -- script, production design, directing and acting...Her plays deal with Filipino-American duality and finding ways of defining it..." J. P. Orias, Honolulu Hawaii-Filipino Chronicle, February, 1995

"...offers an intimate peek into characters' psyches, where frustrations and dreams serve to masquerade pain and truth...with gripping sensitivity and striking a delicate balance between opposing convictions." Linda P. Jacob, Peninsula Times Tribune, April 1992

"...leaves the audience with much to mull...it can't help yearning for a good yarn every now and then." Heather Clancy, Oakland Tribune, April 1992

"...the memoir of a Filipino American woman...and war heroics in the '40s [that]
inspire her to stand up for her rights..." Judith Green, San Jose Mercury, April 1992

"...The emotionally powerful play incisively looks at feelings and psychology of immigrants of identifiable physical features and their children...exceedingly well acted and directed..." Joe Papaso, Foothill Sentinel, Los Altos Hills May 1992

Playwright since 1981 and TheatreWorks Literary Manager since 1985, Jeannie Barroga has been produced nationwide and has five books published chronicling her work. The most recent publication was TALK-STORY ("But Still Like Air I'll Rise", Velina Hasu Houston, editor) which premiered at TheatreWorks in 1992. Other plays or dissertations appear in "Performing Asian America", Josephine Lee, editor; "Women Playwrights of Diversity", Jane T. Peterson, Suzanne Bennett, editors; "Two Plays by Jeannie Barroga", CrossCurrents, publisher; and "Unbroken Thread", Roberta Uno, editor. RITA'S RESOURCES premiered at Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, New York 1995. She served on grants panels in San Francisco, San Mateo, Oakland, and Boston. For her contribution to theatre, she received the Maverick Award from the Los Angeles Women's Festival in 1996. Since then, she presented her one-woman show A GOOD FACE at 450 Geary Studio, ACT'S Quarry Series both in San Francisco, Warehouse Repertory in Ft. Bragg, and recently at Stanford University's Asian American Theater Project in February 1999. She is a member of the Marin Theatre Lab, and the Dramatists Guild in New York.

FACT SHEET
TALK-STORY
Written by: Jeannie Barroga
Produced by: UC-Davis Dept. of Theatre and Dance
Performances: October 28 thru November 7, 1999, 8:00 p.m.
Information: 530-752-5863
Email: dawilliams@ucdavis.edu
Location: 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616-8800
Admission: General Admission: $11.00; Students: $6.00; {Preview Oct. 27:
$4.00)