By IANS,
New York : Desipina, a fusion arts company founded by two sisters of South Asian and Filipina descent, will present here next month an “Alice in Wonderland” inspired multi-media, puppet adventure play where puppets, projections and politics collide.
Presented in conjunction with Ma-Yi Writers Lab, “Lonely Leela”, the new play by Rehana Lew Mirza, sees malicious codes and white knight bloggers meet in a shifting world of everything’s at your fingertips, but you can’t quite find what you’re looking for.
Directed by Robert Ross Parker, co-artistic director of the Obie Award-winning “Vampire Cowboys”, “Lonely Leela” will run for four performances, all at 7 p.m., from Sep 5 to Sep 8 at HERE, a New York producing company presenting daring hybrid art, in Manhattan.
“Lonely Leela” features a cast that includes Quinlan Corbett (“Your Boyfriend May Be Imaginary”), Andrew Guilarte (“Invasion”), Anna Kull (“Milk”), Maria-Christina Oliveras (“Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson”), Matt Park (“We In Silence Hear A Whisper”), Lipica Shah (“Dov & Ali”), and David Shih (“Crane Story”).
“Lonely Leela” is produced by Ying Le for Desipina & Co. and has a design team that includes Jason Simms (set), Jake Witlen (video and lighting), Spica Wobbe (puppets), Ien DeNio (sound and music), Dax Valdes (choreographer), Jenny Fisher (costumes) and stage management by John Nehlich.
Mirza’s full-length plays include “Barriers”; “The Good Muslim”; “Radio Diaries of Hank, Yank, & Prank”; “Particles of Pakistan”; and “If It’s Sad I Don’t Want to See It”.
Rehana Mirza founded Desipina with her sister Rohi Mirza Pandya.