Yellow Fever: the internment from The Conciliation Project

Mar 31, 2010

WHEN: 8pm
WHERE: Unity Church of Richmond, 800 Blanton Ave.

March 31 through April 3
8pm
$10 General Seating

($5 discount on a 2nd ticket when you see BOTH shows!)

in repertory with Global Sexxxism: un-wrapped (performed the previous weekend)

at Unity Church of Richmond (near Byrd Park)
800 Blanton Avenue
Richmond, Virginia 23221

Conciliation is “the process of winning over from a state of hostility.” In the spirit of conciliation this play intends to help us promote honest dialogue between people, that we might conciliate our past and build our future together.

Through Asian performance art, multimedia, and a blend of music and dance, Yellow Fever: the internment takes us through the history of the internment, racist ideologies and the war time hysteria. The Asian Exclusion Act was the precursor that set the stage for the spread of Yellow Fever and anti-Asian racism. Around the period of World War II, these racist attitudes and stereotypes were created and perpetuated throughout the media. Of the 110,000 Japanese-American people to be interned after Pearl Harbor, not one was convicted of spying for Japan. This poetic drama explores the mysteries behind the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and the stories that have been withheld from our collective consciousness.

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