3Views sent us–May, Maia, and Maddie–to Sanaz Toossi’s English. The following represents excerpts from our conversation on the power this play holds for us.
Searching for a good time at Under the Radar
In 2025, Under the Radar Festival guarantees the same experimental techniques with new heartfelt stories.
Under the Radar’s Blind Runner, The Horse of Jenin, and A Knock on the Roof powerfully illustrate the ways oppression structures people’s lives.
Christine Mok: In The Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot is an ensemble play that focuses on seven queer women of color and their experiences in a future where oceans have risen and taken back the coasts. America is in ruins. Amazon has become ‘The Corporation.’ It seems to be the only infrastructure giving shape to life in the unfolding human-made ecological disaster.
The playwrights Amalia Oliva Rojas, Robert Schenkkan, and Lauren Yee saw WP Productions’ Dirty Laundry together.
On the first Saturday night of August, Vic & Lexie & Andrea went to see the new play KARA & EMMA & BARBARA & MIRANDA by Ariel Stess and directed by Meghan Finn, presented by The Tank in collaboration with New Georges.
This play was not at all what I expected. I had read the little blurb provided by NAATCO [National Asian American Theatre Company], but then it got so much weirder than the one sentence pitch, which I always love.
When you enter the Stage 42 theater in New York, you might be forgiven for thinking that you’ve entered a castle-themed escape room or an extension of the Medieval Times across the river in New Jersey.
