RACE CARD by Karma Mayet Comes to JACK

Playwright/performer Karma Mayet shares stories of America's tortured relationship to race - both personal and historical - set within the frame of a game of Bid Whist with the audience. With a winning card guiding the choice of story, on any given night she may summon her own experiences moving from Chicago to an all-white town in Illinois, widening to passed-down tales of the Great Migration and the Pullman Porters, smack up against her own current experiences navigating New York microagressions. In this participatory piece, Mayet creates a wonderland of playful intellect, inhabited by humor that bites and characters that speak in twisted tongues. Race Card unpacks the musty traveling papers stuffed into the 21st century's history bags, and rifles through the audience's very own drawers as well, calling on them to join the fray of stage play with both cued and improvised live-ness at every turn.

Dates/Times:
Friday, Dec. 1 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, Dec. 2 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, Dec. 3 at 7:30 pm
Friday, Dec. 8 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, Dec. 9 at 7:30 pm
?Sunday, Dec. 10 at 3 pm
Thursday, Dec 14 at 7:30 pm
Friday, Dec. 15 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, Dec. 16 at 7:30 pm

LOCATION: JACK | 505 ½ Waverly Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238 | C or G train to Clinton-Washington

TICKETS: $18 advanced, $20 door (www.jackny.org or cash only at the door)

Karma Mayet is an actor, vocalist and composer who has performed across the U.S. and internationally. In the New York Theater, she's appeared extensively Off Broadway, on stages including The Public Theater, New Dramatists and The Joyce. Karma is composer/librettist of Indigo, a Blues opera. She's taught improvisation as a transformative tool in community advocacy for 20 years, and has worked with artists including Meshell Ndegeocello, Bill T. Jones and The Roots.

JACK is an OBIE-winning performance venue founded in 2012 in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn by theater-maker Alec Duffy and several co-founders. Our mission is to fuel experiments in art and activism, collaborating with adventurous artists and our neighbors to bring about a just and vibrant society. We present about 200 theater, music and dance performances a year and hold community forums on racial justice, gentrification, and police/community relations. In 2016, DeeArah Wright joined Duffy as Co-Director.

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