What’s it like to “come out” as a Third Culture Kid on stage? Elizabeth Liang tells all!Posted in Articles, Asian Diaspora, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive, United States on 2013-06-23 00:31Z by Steven |
What’s it like to “come out” as a Third Culture Kid on stage? Elizabeth Liang tells all!
The Displaced Nation: A home for international creatives
2013-06-20
The Displaced Nation Team
As reported here last month, Elizabeth Liang spent the month of May performing, at a venue in Los Angeles, a one-woman show about being a Third Culture Kid, or TCK. As some readers may recall, Liang is a self-described Guatemalan-American business brat of Chinese-Spanish-Irish-French-German-English descent. She was brought up by peripatetic parents in Central America, North Africa, the Middle East, and Connecticut. Many of us were curious about not only how she could pack all of that personal history into a solo stage performance, but also how the (mostly American) audiences would respond. Today is the day we get to find out. Take it away, Elizabeth!
—ML Awanohara
I had no idea what to expect from audiences when I opened my solo show, Alien Citizen, in Hollywood, California, on May 3rd (it closed June 1st).
Since the show is about my upbringing as a dual citizen of mixed heritage in six countries, I assumed it would appeal mainly to Adult Third Culture Kids (ATCKs) and people of mixed heritage—the people I wrote it for, since we rarely see our stories portrayed on stage or screen.
I wanted the show to be funny, but wasn’t sure if the humor would translate.
And I wanted people to be moved by the story…
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