Satellites

West Coast Premiere
by Diana Son
directed by Kent Nicholson
January 25, 2008 - March 2, 2008

show length: 100 minutes

Diana Son (Stop Kiss, “ Law & Order: Criminal Intent”) raises challenging questions about parenting, racial identity, and community in this Off-Broadway hit . When a young family moves into a predominantly black neighborhood undergoing gentrification, a Korean-American architect, her African American husband, and their new baby, are welcomed to their home by a rock thrown through the front window. The hole it creates opens the house up to a host of unexpected problems as they discover a world in which tradition, social order, and economic and sexual boundaries are constantly in flux. Called “ an engrossing, unpredictable, and believable portrait” by Newsday , Satellites finds humor and fulfillment in the most unexpected places. Kent Nicholson, who directed Aurora Theatre Company’s acclaimed production of Small Tragedy, helms this incendiary piece.

Satellites is being produced as the fully-staged production in the Global Age Project (GAP), an Aurora Theatre Company initiative that encourages playwrights and directors to explore life in the 21st century and beyond. Four new works dealing with global age concerns will be read in the GAP Monday night play reading series in tandem with Satellites.