Karma Mayet:
Race Card

December 1 - 16, 2017

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

Lighting Design: Alejandro Fajardo

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.

Photo courtesy of JACK