SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26 | 7PM

PAY WHAT YOU FEEL

Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists’ PLAYWRIGHTS PROJECT aims to raise up the voices of emerging & exciting artists working in Philly. Come by for in-development reads of two plays from this years’ residents, Cole Face & SABOTAGE.

Sabotage by Cinder Kuss

directed by Jacinta Yelland

Cinder has made a robot to help with their depression. Will it?

Cole Face by Jacinta Yelland

directed by Trey Lyford

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. 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.

Playwrights Project is led by Stephanie Kyung Sun Walters