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AMA
Kenneth Keng

at Target Margin Theater

January 17 - 18 at 7:30pm

January 18 at 2pm

January 19 at 4pm

*Presented on a split bill with Lal Ensari's winter solstice and Sophie Zmorrod's Gilda, with an Olive

AMA is Ask Me Anything but it's my grandma asking and the audience answering and also she’s dying and also my country is about to be invaded for the second time this century.​

Written by Kenneth Keng

Directed by Annaporva Green

Lighting design by Zee Hanna

Stage Manager: Laila Gerstmann

Cast: Emma Callahan

Photo by Kelsey Cheng

Find them: @kennethbestopped kennethkeng.com

Thanks to Aya Ogawa, Flako Jimenez, Caden Manson and Sibyl Kempson for invaluable early developmental advice, and to my ama, Benita Go, continually driving our family to brighter shores.

A participatory silent monologue about the difficulty of intergenerational communication despite trilingual fluency, interrupted by the invasion of the Philippines by the Japanese Imperial Army. A lecture on the combat capabilities of the World War 2 Era Japanese Type 94 Tankette, drowned out by the sound of an air pump inflating a life sized replica thereof. An invitation to participate in choosing who gets to be the Philippines' next colonizer.

Content warnings: war, mention of historical sexual violence.

The Exponential Festival is a 501c3 organization. Our activities are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Exponential is also supported, in part, by the Mental Insight Foundation and A.R.T./New York’s NYC Small Theatres Fund made possible with support from the Howard Gilman Foundation.

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