MANY TRUMP REFUGEES IN ONE BODY Makes World Premiere

Dorchester resident Lyralen Kaye, SAG/AFTRA is the writer and performer for an upcoming premier production of Many Trump Refugees in One Body. Directed by Caitlin Inglis and held at the Boston Playwright's Theatre, 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 laughed my ass off. 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.

"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 plan to do that, too."

The Boston Inaugural Performances will be held on March 13 & 14 at 7:30 pm (before the show goes on to the Brighton, UK Fringe, the Hollywood Fringe and more). The production is located at The Boston Playwright's Theatre 949 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston.

Tickets go on sale in February and are $30 general admission, $25 seniors and $18 for students. To purchase to go: www.anothercountryproductions.com.

For general information, including early ticket discounts and group sales, email anothercountryproductions@yahoo.com or call 617-939-4846.

Design Credit: George Courage, Courage Creative

Photo Credit: Marc Ewart

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