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Shaha: The Storytellers What Topics Does Shaha Cover? Skit Summaries
We are always developing new skits about our own experiences, and we'd love input from our audiences. If you have a topic that you think we should be working on or writing about, let us know! This skit is a short, quick look at some of the things we hear and think in regard to these issues - some are offensive, others just questioning, and a few are inner thoughts or feelings that we might have that we are afraid to voice. Issues explored: racism, sexism, gender oppression, ableism, heterosexism, classism These skits are unique uses of the United States National Anthem to challenge some of the racist, sexist, classist, and exclusionary beliefs and actions that people experience regularly in the "Land of the Free and Home of the Brave." Issues explored: exclusion, lack of community, injustice This is a monologue that explores complex issues of personal wellness and strength. A woman finding empowerment in self and reclaiming strength. Issues explored: gender oppression, perceptions, strength As a society that is overly obsessed with a number of things, the body and images we are told to emulate is a constant one, and this is particularly obvious in the media. This skit gets at the madness of the bombardment of messages we receive continually in multiple forms of media. This skit will hopefully encourage the audience to rethink the images and messages that blanket our televisions and magazines, and consider us to challenge these notions of what it means to have a good body. Issues explored: body image Most us of have not been raised to engage in healthy dialogue around issues of diversity, respect, and differences. We have been more likely trained in ways to excuse or justify our behavior, languages and actions. This skit is a humorous play on these notions and exemplifies some of these defense mechanisms we hold in place to avoid real dialogue. Issues explored: internalized subordination and domination. This is another monologue that explores the experience of a Jewish American woman and the assumptions that get made about her personality, interests, and sexuality. Issue explored: anti-Semitism This is a skit that allows the audience to hear the inner voice of individuals wrestling with others who are different from themselves, and the inner thoughts when we are trying not to offend others but limit our ability to be authentic with one another. Issues explored: socialization, racism, sexual orientation Being of Lower Income Monologue This is another monologue that further explores the difficulty of class and injustice associated with being of lower income in a middle class world. Issue explored: classism Survival!
Of the Privilege Issues explored: institutional oppression - classism, racism, religion This skit specifically explores white privilege, whiteness, and internalized domination around race that tends to occur all around us without the awareness of some of the white people who benefit from it. Issues explored: white privilege, whiteness This is a poignant poetry reading of a powerful piece that explores "human's inhumanity to human" and the consequences of such inhumanity. Issues explored: racism, classism, religious oppression, exclusion This is an engaging mix of individual voices and the full troupe serving as the course between powerful mini-monologues touching on religion, sexual orientation, and gender. Much like "The Matrix" reloaded and revolved, we get the opportunity to "revisit" our One Liners skit. Where the original skit shouts out overly used oppressive statements, the revisited version shouts out under-used liberatory statements that we hope audience members will bring into their everyday language. Issues explored: hope, revolution, liberation |
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