Doorway Arts Ensemble and Arts Alive Theatre of Montgomery College present a World Premier play, The Race, co-produced with playwright/performer John Milosich under the direction of Regie Cabico.
APRIL 29 – MAY 22, 2011
Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8pm
Sunday at 2pm
Monday, May 16 at 8pm - Pay What You Wish
TWO FOR $5 DEAL THROUGH END OF RUN – CALL THE BOX OFFICE AT (240) 567-5775!
An autobiographical solo play incorporating original music, movement and film, The Race explores a white man’s awareness of race and racism. Portraying himself and a host of characters that are at once hilarious and infuriating, John confronts his own racism, calls into question his position of racial and social privilege, and challenges the apathy and prejudice that characterized his racist upbringing. We follow his journey from Buffalo to Dubrovnik, and from his work in the classroom to dreams of South Africa. John’s presentation is daring and embarrassing – but above all, honest.
The Race Reviews!
“Milosich is superb at acting with his body…candid and compelling as he describes his own fumbling struggles with race…he knows the white man’s experience of racism, and understands important things about the relationship between fathers and sons.” – DC Theatre Scene
“John Milosich gave a heart-felt performance discussing his coming to terms with race in America.” – ShowBizRadio
“Highly recommended … deserves full houses for the entire run.” Critic’s Choice and Best Acting – All Arts Review 4 U
TICKETS: $10 general admission, $5 for seniors, students and Montgomery College faculty and staff
Call the box office at (240) 567-5775 or order online at Cultural Arts Center or tickets.com.
LOCATION: The Studio Theatre in the Cultural Arts Center at Montgomery College
Silver Spring / Takoma Park Campus
7995 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910
Parking: Free behind the Cultural Arts Center or in the campus parking garage at the intersection of Georgia Avenue and King Street. Metro: Red line to Silver Spring.
For more information, email milodoestherace@yahoo.com.
“Milosich has produced rollicking numbers that blend alt-rock, American folk and Eastern European cadences.”
– Washington Post (review of Courage by dog & pony dc, June 2010)
“There is no doubt that what Milosich does with his body and with the inarticulate sounds that the transformed Gregor is able to make carry the narrative weight of this show. Milosich’s movements capture horror, fear, sorrow, yearning and regret, and make this man-sized insect fully human to us.”
-DC Theatre Scene (review of Kafka’s Metamorphosis by Synetic Theater, April 2010)
FROM JOHN MILOSICH
About five years ago, I began to experience an unfamiliar dissonance. I noticed it walking down the street, at work, and in social settings. Leaning in closer, I became aware of a separation I felt between myself and people of color. The more I sought to learn, the more I saw that I needed to know about race and racism. For a long time, I wanted to build a performance that could address and summarize everything racial – to gather enough information to be able to speak conclusively. It seems naïve now, to the point that it’s nearly impossible for me to declare anything at all. Rather, I think that the dissonance comes from a disparity in awareness. Years later, it seems the only right thing to do is to pay attention, to read and ask, to tell about my experience, hoping it helps us all lean in closer.
FROM REGIE CABICO
In The Race I wanted to explore, with John Milosich, those awkward moments as human beings where place, hometown, dreams and pop culture as well as skin color define us. I turn to spoken word poetry and my roots in neo-futurism (the art of the two-minute play) that intersect performance art and non-illusory theater to get to the core of John as son, music school teacher, artist and American citizen rooted somewhere in the recesses of ethnocentric Pennsylvania and Croatia. Dreams are as important to me as poetry and I think that the fantasy to rescue to heal and to save humanity are key – and the saving starts to form those tiny awkward social moments.
