Free Online Radio Play “Snowflakes, or Rare White People” (May 1-10)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

UC Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) closes its 2019–2020 season with the cuttingly smart satire SNOWFLAKES, OR RARE WHITE PEOPLE by Dustin Chinn. The show is free and available online as a recorded radio play from Friday, May 1 through Sunday, May 10 at tdps.berkeley.edu.

Stories and creative energy can be a balm to the soul in this moment, and with that spirit director Mina Morita and our resilient company of students have transformed this cuttingly smart satire from that of a theater production into an online radio play.

Delivered with a medium shaped in the early 20th century and captured in our 21st century during this unprecedented pandemic, this play takes us to 23rd-Century Nueva New York. In the city, the remaining white American population is protected by the federal government. Two of the last are brought to the Museum of Natural History as a living exhibit in the Hall of Caucasian Peoples, only to be freed by a sympathetic gift shop employee. Is society ready for their return?

Inspired by the Hall of Asian Peoples at the American Museum of Natural History and articles bemoaning the “dwindling majority” of white Americans, Chinn’s play cleverly explores American conceptions of race and ethnicity, representation, and the precariousness of social status.

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