Persepolis, Texas: FOBspring to Drag Queen In One Generation!

Persepolis, Texas makes its premiere this July 15th, 16th, and 17th at CounterPULSE! Get tickets here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/177123 How is it that a little girl born to Iranian parents, reared in the suburbs of Texas and schooled to become an architect became an ostentatious drag queen in San Francisco? How can the violence of the suburbs disrupt the dreams immigrants have for themselves and their offspring? Can the children of immigrants use their precarious cultural collateral to forge new identities, or are they mired by the consequences of exoticization? Persepolis, Texas, an evening-length, one-woman show premiering at CounterPULSE in July, lives and breathes in these questions. Using narrative, devised movement, and drag, I will take the audience to the Wild West, an Iranian living room, a suburban public school, and to Persepolis itself to explore how where we're from makes who we are. And dig this: maryamrostami.com And tell you friends! Much love...