I just got an email from Dan Kwong reminding the “Asian Men” group that we will be performing at the Highways Performance Space as part of the Asian Pacific American Performance and Visual Art Festival in 6 weeks!!!! I’m very excited to be able to perform our show again! We will be working closely with Dan over the next couple of weeks to improve and enhance our stories and performances. This will be a GREAT show!
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Here’s another essay from the workshop.
Anger
By David Chiu
It was a happy warm summer day. My fiancé and I were driving around Manhattan beach looking for a place to hold our rehearsal dinner. We just had left an upscale restaurant and were walking across the parking lot, hand-in-hand, towards our car. Ahead of us, two guys had entered the lot as well, holding fishing rods and a cooler, obviously returning from fishing. As we walked in their direction, they looked intently at my fiancé and I as we passed them. The fact that they were looking at us didn’t really bother me, and I didn’t pay much attention to them. But suddenly, I heard one of them say, “What a waste”. It didn’t register at first. To me it was just a piece of a private conversation I had been privy to. But then my mind started to put it all together. They were talking about my wife. They had been looking at her and I together with a look of disgust and disapproval because they thought that someone as attractive as my wife shouldn’t be with an Asian guy. Deep inside I felt the heat of anger start to boil my blood. I was stirred to action.
“Did he just say what I think he said?” I asked my fiancé.
“Just let it go” she replied.
“Those fucking rednecks.” I said aloud as I started to turn around.
“It’s not worth it. They’re stupid and ignorant. Let’s just go.”
I turned around and looked. They were gone. For the next 2 weeks i was filled with anger which spurred thoughts of violence and destruction against rednecks.
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