Book Event: Charlie Oh and Isaiah Stavchansky

IN-STORE EVENT
Monday, May 19, 7:30 PM
Charlie Oh and Isaiah Stavchansky present What This Place Makes Me: Contemporary Plays on Immigration

Playwright Charlie Oh and editor Isaiah Stavchansky take the Greenlight stage to discuss What This Place Makes Me, a trailblazing collection of seven award-winning plays by rising stars of contemporary theater that herald a profound shift in what it means to be an American, an immigrant, and an artist on today’s stage. Echoing beyond the stage, What This Place Makes Me unites exhilarating new voices of Lebanese, Nigerian, Korean, Bengali, Polish, and Mexican descent, as they draw on their common experiences of displacement, alienation, and the sense of living in suspension; sometimes torn between two worlds, sometimes plummeting into the spaces between them. Amid the tangled relationships, vengeful landscapes, and buried family mysteries something universal flickers: the search for safety and the promise of home. Both haunting and galvanizing, What This Place Makes Me will be a vital touchstone for years to come. Oh and Stavchansky discuss the book in-depth, before an audience Q&A and signing.

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