MANY TRUMP REFUGEES IN ONE BODY Adds New Dates In Boston

Boston resident Lyralen Kaye, SAG/AFTRA, AEA, is the writer and performer for an upcoming premier production of Many Trump Refugees in One Body at the Boston Playwrights' Theatre on March 13 & 14. Directed by Caitlin Inglis of Boston and dramaturg Lisa Merchant of Second City Toronto, this solo show takes the audience into the experience of immigration and the frantic dance of trying to convince the officials you're worthy to cross the border...permanently.

Dave Flanagan, playwright and producer says: "The show is ostensibly about running away from Donald Trump, which a lot of us wanted to do, but in this crazy process Lyralen learns some deeper truths about herself. I think it's a show that resonates or should resonate with everybody."

Co-producer Marc Ewart states: "I couldn't stop laughing. It's joyous."

Kaye has won a plethora of writing awards, including the Meryl Streep Writers Lab, the Stanley and Eleanor Lipkin Prize in Playwriting, the Moth Story Slam (in October) and the Doyle story slam (in November) and multiple poetry slams. This week, she was named a semi-finalist in the Black List Women in Film Award. Early in her career, she was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in fiction.

"I'm a social justice writer," Kaye says. "My work is always about equality in both our public and our most intimate lives...and our utter ridiculousness in trying and failing to live up to our best ideals. This memoir piece shows that I'm at least as ridiculous as everyone else. Okay, more so. I'm definitely in the 'more so' category."

The story of Many Trump Refugees in One Body opens on election night, November 8, 2016, and moves quickly to Kaye's decision to immigrate...on November 9! As her much-loved and change resistant partner throws up roadblocks, as immigration questions and demands throw her into frantic posturing about being more together than anyone could be, as she finds a safety in Canada that the US sorely lacks, Kaye takes the audience deeply inside her own experience of being "an overly credentialed multicultural activist (gluten free)" and a woman with a PTSD diagnosis that immigration lawyers are concerned might prevent her acceptance...because of the burden to their health care system. Through a combination of physical theater, storytelling and stand-up comedy, she lays it all on the line.

"This is the time for being transparent, because there's no other way to bring communities together." She grins. "Except for making them laugh. And I do that, too."

The show performs at the Boston Playwrights' Theatre on March 13 & 14. It will also perform in Boston in April, followed by a run at the Brighton, UK Fringe in May and the Hollywood Fringe in June. Other performance dates are pending.

For more information, high resolution images for print, to schedule an interview or reserve seats, please contact: Edward Howland, manytrumprefugees@gmail.com. For more information about Lyralen, go to www.lyralenkaye.com.

Photo Credit: Marc Ewart

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