ALIENS, IMMIGRANTS & OTHER EVILDOERS

With the anti-immigrant hysteria gripping the U.S. twenty plus years since the 9/11 tragedy, award-winning performance artist / activist, published playwright and poet, José Torres-Tama takes the Immigration issue head-on in his critically acclaimed “ALIENS, IMMIGRANTS & OTHER EVILDOERS.” The artist deftly shape-shifts into nine characters that challenge the dehumanization of immigrants in a system that readily exploits their labor. Visually dynamic, profoundly moving, and a hilariously funny “tour de force,” he offers a clarion call to action for the “United States of AMNESIA” to remember its mythic promise as the “land of the free” carved into the iconic Statue of Liberty. His comic battle cry is NO GUACAMOLE for Immigrant Haters!  

September 29, 2022 at 7:30 PM
October 1, 2022 at 8:30 PM
October 2, 2022 at 2:00 PM

“In a visually stunning one-man performance using ritual as art, José Torres-Tama takes you on a painful journey from the sacred to the profane, as he embodies the dozen most dramatic of the 100 stories he personally video recorded over a ten-year period as his magnus opus effort to “document the undocumented.” —DC Metro News Theater Arts

About the artist

José Torres-Tama & ArteFuturo Productions in New Orleans is the only performance art and ensemble theater producer in the “Big Easy” dedicated to cultivating and amplifying Latin American immigrant voices. It was founded in 1995 to produce José Torres-Tama’s performance solos. Since, JTT and ArteFuturo have developed the Taco Truck Theater on wheels radical ensemble performance (2013 – 2019), and the “TEATRO SIN FRONTERAS” seven-part series in 2015 and most recently in 2021 with a five-part series at Cafe Istanbul. This TSF series has presented over 80 plus Latinx poets, performers, choreographers, musicians, visual artists, and immigrant activists in New Orleans, who are generally neglected, but form part of a long Latin legacy in the Crescent City. JTT and ArteFuturo Productions are without walls, and there is no other Latinx producer of politically provocative performance projects in the Crescent City.     

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