Affirmative (Re)Action El Centro Productions

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This one's for the fans and the hosts. Tune in to hear Ryan's most genuine laugh, a second shout out to communism, and Annika's editing notes get incorporated for the first time. 



Podcast cover was made by Kyra Tantao @klasticdayz in Brooklyn, N

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Disgraced is a 2012 play by novelist and screenwriter Ayad Akhtar. It premiered in Chicago and has had Off-Broadway and Off West End engagements. The play, which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play is centered on sociopolitical themes such as Islamophobia and the self-identity of Muslim-American citizens. It focuses on a dinner party between four people with very different backgrounds. As discussion turns to politics and religion, the mood quickly becomes heated. Described as a "combustible powder keg of identity politics, the play depicts racial and ethnic prejudices that "secretly persist in even the most progressive cultural circles. It is also said to depict the challenge for upwardly mobile Muslim Americans in the post-9/11 America.

Venmo’s: @jacob-santos-22 ; @rda956 ; @annika-pk

M. Butterfly is a play by David Henry Hwang. The story, while entwined with that of the opera Madama Butterfly, is based most directly on the relationship between French diplomat Bernard Boursicot and Shi Pei Pu, a Peking opera singer.



Venmo’s: @jacob-santos-22 ; @rda956 ; @annika-pk

A Doll's House, Part 2 is a 2017 play written by Lucas Hnath. The play premiered at the South Coast Repertory, in April 2017, before transferring to Broadway at the John Golden Theatre. The play "picks up after Henrik Ibsen's 1879 play A Doll's House concludes"



Venmo’s: @jacob-santos-22 ; @rda956 ; @annika-pk