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1. Polaroid Stories Script

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A visceral blend of dance, classical mythology and real life stories told by street kids, Naomi lizuka's Polaroid Stories journeys into a dangerous world where. Not all the stories these characters tell are true; some are lies, wild yams, clever deceits, baroque fabrications. Click to download a PDF copy of the program.

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Polaroid Stories Script

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Naomi Iizuka (born April 22, 1965) is a playwright. Iizuka's works often have a non-linear storyline and are influenced by her multicultural background.

Iizuka's mother is an American Latina attorney and her father is a Japanese banker. Born in Tokyo, Iizuka grew up in Japan, Indonesia, the Netherlands, and Washington, D.C., United States. She has lived in Iowa and currently lives in Los Angeles, California.

Iizuka attended the National Cathedral School, has her BA in classical literature from Yale University in 1987, and spent one year at Yale Law School before eventually receiving her MFA in playwriting from University of California, San Diego in 1992.^[1] She has taught playwriting at the University of Iowa and the University of Texas, Austin, and was a Professor of Dramatic Arts and Director of the Playwriting Program at UC Santa Barbara until January 2008 when she took over as the head of MFA playwrighting at her alma mater, UCSD.

Iizuka was commissioned to write Good Kids, as the first playwright to participate in the Big Ten Theatre Consortium's New Play Initiative, which was established to commission, produce, and publicize a series of new plays by female playwrights, each of which will contain several significant roles for college-aged women.^[2]

Commissioning[edit]

The Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature cites Iizuka as 'One of the most commissioned playwrights in contemporary American theater.'^[3] Iizuka approaches commissioning through prevalent social issues. She says the university is a particularly good pathway to develop her commissioned work because of the resources and diversity they can offer: 'I believe universities are the great untapped resource in American theatre. In terms of material resources: performance spaces, rehearsal rooms, shops and state-of-the-art equipment. Also, in terms of human resources and the communities you find within universities. If we want to develop artist-driven work that's keyed into the artist's process, that's not a one-size-fits-all process, universities can be a big part in solving that puzzle.'^[4]

Iizuka was commissioned to write Good Kids by the Big Ten Theatre Consortium. The initiative is meant to support women playwrights and increase the number of roles for women on stage.^[4] Iizuka says, 'I wanted to write a play that spoke to issues that were very important to university students right now. Having taught at a number of schools as a guest artist, and now teaching at University of California–San Diego, it seems like the issue of sexual assault—and more importantly, the attitudes and misconceptions that create a climate where sexual assault is prevalent—seemed timely.'^[4] As part of the Big Ten initiative, universities are performing Good Kids to tackle the issue of sexual assault on campus. Good Kids is about a drunk high school girl who is raped by a group of football players after a high school party. The play focuses on the rumors and social aftermath. The natural question arises: who is to blame? 'I think the question that the play asks is how can this happen?' Iizuka says. 'If we take it as a starting point that college campuses are not filled with sociopathic predators: What is it that creates a situation where this happens?'^[4] Through the process of creating Good Kids, Izuka collaborated with college students and solicited their input toward the issue of sexual assault and how campuses should prevent and respond to this crime. 'It's something that they very much want to talk about, and do something about,' she says. 'There's an enormous energy around the issue of sexual assault and what to do on campus. You don't solve a problem like sexual assault with anything other than a deep shift in attitude, and a deep shift in attitude happens conversation by conversation, in dorm rooms, parties and rehearsal halls.'^[4]

Good Kids was produced at the University of Michigan (October 2–12, 2014), University of Iowa (February 8–15, 2015), Indiana University (February 6–14, 2015), University or Wisconsin Madison (February 27-March 8, 2015), University of Maryland (February 27-March 7, 2015), Purdue University (April 10–12, 15-18, 22-26, 2015), Penn State University, Ohio State University (October 27, 2014), and has scheduled productions at many other schools outside the Big Ten.^[5]

Content and Critical Response[edit]

Iizuka's background in classical literature inspires her 'fusing of classical styles and forms to modern and contemporary voices.' ^[3] Evident in her adaptation of HamletHamlet: Blood on the Brain (2006), Johns Hopkins University Press describes her work as reinforcing 'a sense that the play's archetypal quality could be adapted to fit a society lacking resonance with either ancient Scandinavia or Elizabethan London….non-academic spectators could accept that classics illuminate modern society.' ^[6] Set in Oakland in the 1980s, the play is about a young man who gets out of prison to find his father murdered and his uncle in charge of his mother's house. Through the history of Oakland, CA, the play explores the theme of anger and violence in contemporary time, drawing strong parallels to Shakespeare'sHamlet.^[7]

Iizuka's Polaroid Stories (1997) is a modern adaptation of the Greek myth of Eurydice and Orpheus. Iizuka collapses classical literature and contemporary everyday life by making Minneapolis street kids the main characters of the play instead of mythical gods.^[3] The drug dealers, prostitutes, and homeless tell their stories, some real and some complete lies, which together create some sort of truth about the desolate, urban landscape that they find refuge in. Iizuka's work shows that no matter the time period, there is great power in storytelling.^[8]

Iizuka contemplates what is real and what is authentic in her 2001 play 36 Views. The title refers to nineteenth-century Japanese artist Hokusai'sThirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. Some of the 36 scenes are set in contemporary America while others are set in Japan several hundred years ago.^[9] A New York Times critic notes, 'among Ms. Iizuka's well-demonstrated ideas is that human wishes persistently obscure the truth. All by ourselves we make it tougher to know what's what.' ^[9] The play is about the unexpected discovery of an 11th-century Japanese pillow book and the struggle to construct reality in the midst of the uncertainty surrounding the book's origin and authenticity. Darius Wheeler and his assistant John Bell come across revelations that conflict with their previous assumptions throughout the play and up to the very end where 'not even the context of the plot is what it seems to be.' ^[9]

Works[edit]

• Good Kids (2014)
• The Last Firefly (2011)
• Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West (2010)
• Ghostwritten (2009)
• After a Hundred Years (2008)
• Anon(ymous) (2006)
• Hamlet: Blood in the Brain (2006)
• Strike-Slip (2006)
• At the Vanishing Point (2004) Revised in 2015^[10]
• 17 Reasons (Why) (2003)
• 36 Views (2001)
• War of the Worlds (Written in collaboration with Anne Bogart) (2000)
• Language of Angels (2000)
• Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls (1999)
• Polaroid Stories (1997)
• Marlowe's Eye (1996)
• Skin (1995)
• Tattoo Girl (1994)
• Carthage (1994)
• Coxinga (1994)
• Ikeniye (1994)
• Crazy Jane (1992)
• Portrait of Bianca (1992)
• Greenland (1992)
• Lizzy Vinyl (1990)
• And Then She Was Screaming (1990)
• Body Beautiful (1990)

Awards[edit]

• 1995 Jerome Fellowship
• 1996 McKnight Advancement Grant
• 1998 PEN Center USA West Award for Drama
• 1998 Princeton University's Hodder Fellowship
• 1999 Whiting Award
• 2001 NEA/TCG Artist-in-Residence Grant
• 2001 Stavis Award from the National Theatre Conference
• 2001 Rockefeller Foundation MAP grant
• 2005 Alpert Award in the Arts
• 2006 Joyce Award winner
• 2007 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award winner for a playwright in mid-career
• Gerobe Foundation Fellowship

References[edit]

1. ^Busy UC Santa Barbara Playwright Honored with Alpert Award in the Arts
2. ^Hammerich, Jenna (2013-12-19). 'Writing new roles, righting old wrongs : Big Ten Theatre Consortium establishes New Play Initiative to combat gender inequity in the theater'. Iowa Now. University of Iowa. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
3. ^ ^abcSeiwoong., Oh, (2013). Encyclopedia of Asian-American literature (Second ed.). New York: Facts on File. pp. 122–123. ISBN9781438140582. OCLC882543312.CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
4. ^ ^abcdeTran, Diep (2014-10-01). 'Naomi Iizuka's 'Good Kids' Tackles Sexual Assault at Universities'. American Theatre. Theatre Communications Group. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
5. ^'Big Ten Plays - The Big Ten Theatre Consortium - New Plays by and about Women'. theatre.uiowa.edu. University of Iowa. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
6. ^Richmond, Hugh M. (2007-10-29). 'Hamlet: Blood on the Brain (review)'. Shakespeare Bulletin. 25 (3): 89–92. doi:10.1353/shb.2007.0054. ISSN1931-1427.
7. ^Harmanci, Reyhan (2006-10-26). 'Tragic tale retold / 'Hamlet: Blood in the Brain' Shakespeare's play set on war-torn streets of Oakland in late '80s'. SFGate. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
8. ^Gruber-Miller, John (April 2004). 'Ovid Metamorphosed: Naomi Iizuka's Polaroid Stories [Abstract]'. camws.org. One-Hundredth Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
9. ^ ^abcWeber, Bruce (2002-03-29). 'THEATER REVIEW; When Things Aren't What They Seem (Are They?)'. The New York Times. ISSN0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
10. ^Montgomery, Hannah Rae (January 2015). 'At the Vanishing Point: Play Guide'(PDF). actorstheatre.org. Actors Theatre. Retrieved 2018-04-28.

Further reading[edit]

• Berson, Misha. 'Naomi Iizuka: Raising the Stakes.' American Theatre, vol. 15, no. 7, Sept. 1998, pp. 56–57.
• Chambers, Jonathan. 'Lost Souls in the Land of Plenty': Naomi Iizuka's Skin.' New England Theatre Journal, vol. 13, 2002, pp. 53–75.
• Chambers, Jonathan. 'Staging the Dispossessed: Naomi Iizuka's Polaroid Stories.' Theatre Symposium: A Journal of the Southeastern Theatre Conference, vol. 8, 2000, pp. 34–42.
• Chun, Yon Hee. '[Authenticity of Art in Naomi Iizuka's 36 Views].' Journal of Modern British and American Drama, vol. 25, no. 1, Apr. 2012, pp. 55–85.
• Iizuka, Naomi. 'Iizuka's 36 Views' [interview with Cindy Yoon]. AsiaSociety.org.
• Jackson-Schebetta, Lisa. 'Worlds of More Than One: Pedagogies of Care and Naomi Iizuka's Good Kids.' Theatre Topics, vol. 26, no. 3, Nov. 2016, pp. 295–306.
• Miyagawa, Chiori. 'Brave, Bold, and Poetic: The New Generation of Asian American Women Playwrights.' In Women Playwrights of Diversity: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook. by Janes T. Peterson and Suzanne Bennett. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997.
• Pipino, K. 'The Odyssey on Stage: Naomi Iizuka and Derek Walcott.' MAIA-Rivista Di Letterature Classiche, vol. 64, no. 3, 01 Sept. 2012, p. 570-574.
• Sara, Freeman. 'At the Vanishing Point by Naomi Iizuka (Review).' Theatre Journal. vol 67, no. 4, 2016, p. 710.
• Willenbrink, Hank. 'The Geography of Disappearing: Meatyard, Butchertown, and Perspective in Naomi Iizuka's at the Vanishing Point.' Contemporary Theatre Review, vol. 24, no. 2, May 2014, pp. 209–228.
• Wren, Celia. 'Navigating Alien Worlds: An Interview with the Playwright.' American Theatre, vol. 19, no. 2, Feb. 2002, p. 32.
• Wynstra, Beth. 'Hamlet: Blood in the Brain Naomi Iizuka Jonathan Moscone.' Theatre Journal, no. 3, 2007, p. 497.

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