[NEohioPAL] Refugee Hotel

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Tue Feb 3 17:18:22 PST 2015


The Center for Applied Theatre and Active Culture (CATAC) &
Wandering Aesthetics 
Present…
“The Boiling Point” Play Reading and Discussion
The Refugee Hotel


(January 19, 2014 – Akron, Ohio – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE) Wandering Aesthetics, in collaboration with The Center for Applied Theatre and Active Culture (CATAC), is proud to announce The Refugee Hotel as the next play in our monthly play reading series, The Boiling Point. 
The Refugee Hotel will be read on Tuesday, February 10, 2014 at 8 pm at the Balch Street Theatre, located within the Balch Street Community Center at 220 S. Balch Street in Akron, Ohio.  
The Boiling Point is a free event and open to the public. Anyone may come and read a part or simply listen and join the discussion afterwards. 

For more information visit www.tinyurl.com/BoilingPoint10 or email watheatre at gmail.com 
About the Play:

More than a dark comedy about a group of Chilean refugees who arrive in Vancouver after Pinochet’s coup, The Refugee Hotel is Carmen Aguirre’s attempt to give voice to refugee communities from all corners of the globe.


Set in a run-down hotel in 1974, only months after the start of the infamous Pinochet regime, eight Chilean refugees struggle – at times haplessly, at times profoundly – to decide if fleeing their homeland means they have abandoned their friends and responsibilities or not.


Laid bare in the fictionalized autobiographical details of Refugee Hotel are universal truths that victims and survivors of political oppression continue to experience everywhere.

About the Playwright: 


Carmen Aguirre is a Vancouver-based theatre artist who has worked extensively in North and South America. She has written and co-written twenty-one plays, including Chile Con Carne, The Trigger, The Refugee Hotel and Blue Box. Her first non-fiction book, Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter, was published in 2011. Something Fierce was a critically acclaimed, number one best-seller.  Aguirre has more than sixty film, TV and stage acting credits, is a Theatre of the Oppressed workshop facilitator and an instructor in the acting department at Vancouver Film School. She received the Union of B.C. Performers 2011 Lorena Gale Woman of Distinction Award and the 2012 Langara College Outstanding Alumnae Award. Aguirre is a graduate of Studio 58.


About The Boiling Point: 
The Boiling Point is that wild moment where internal pressures surpass outer, triggering a transformation. “Alternative” plays serve as our fuel to ignite the minds of Akronites. By reading a diverse array of texts, we set ablaze different genres, aesthetics and cultures– especially those works beyond the scope of traditional American theatre. The friction between these new encounters and their resulting conversations will generate the spark of fresh ideas that will take Akron to The Boiling Point.

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