Actress and writer Elizabeth Liang will visit Williams on September 18th to give her solo performance, Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey, in the Adams Memorial Theatre, 7:30 – 9PM.
Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey is a funny and poignant one-woman show about growing up as a dual citizen of mixed heritage in Central America, North Africa, the Middle East, and New England. Liang weaves humorous stories about growing up as an Alien Citizen abroad with American commercial jingles providing a soundtrack through language confusion, first love, culture shock, Clark Gable, and sandstorms with projections and sound design.
In her words,
The protagonist deals with the decisions every global nomad has to make repeatedly: to adapt or to simply cope; to build a bridge or to just tolerate. From being a Guatemalan-American teen in North Africa to attending a women’s college in the USA, Alien Citizen reflects the experience that neither one was necessarily easier than the other. How does a young girl cope with … a country that feels “other” to her when she is the “other?” Where is the line between respecting others and betraying yourself? (Humor is a great survival mechanism.)
Performance is free but tickets must be reserved or picked up for the show.
’62 CTD | 413-597-2425 | Tues-Sat 1-5pm
Box office officially opens Sept. 9th but tickets will be available online Sept. 3rd.
Sponsored by the Center for Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, with generous funding from the Ford Schumann Fund for Democratic Studies, the Davis Center, Claiming Williams, Dean of Students, and the programs in Comparative Literature and the Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies.
