‘One Drop of Love’ (Theatre Review)

Posted in Articles, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive, United States on 2013-06-29 19:31Z by Steven

‘One Drop of Love’ (Theatre Review)

The Chic of Domesticity: A Woman-to-Women Conversation on All Facets of Life – Fashion – Politics – Religion – Style – Travel
2013-06-29

Jennifer Vaughn-Estrada

Plans free for tomorrow evening? I recommend catching the final performance of One Drop of Love: A Daughter’s Search for Her Father’s Racial Approval at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Race is an uncomfortable, and often confusing, subject for us “mixies,” and Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, co-founder of the Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival, addresses it head on in this one-woman play about identities, stereotypes, and family frustrations…

Read the entire review here.

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One Drop of Love

Posted in Arts, Autobiography, Live Events, Media Archive, Social Science, United States on 2013-06-18 17:44Z by Steven

One Drop of Love

Hollywood Fringe Festival
L.A.’s Largest Celebration of the Performing Arts
2013-06-13 through 2013-06-30

Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, Playwright, Producer, Actress, Educator

Jillian Pagan, Director

Produced by: Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Chay Carter

Performances:

Friday 2013-06-21, 14:30 PDT (Local Time)
Lounge Theatre
6201 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, California

Friday 2013-06-28, 16:15 PDT (Local Time)
Lounge Theatre
6201 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, California

Sunday 2013-06-30, 18:00 PDT (Local Time)
Lounge Theatre
6201 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, California

One Drop of Love is a multimedia solo show that journeys from the U.S. to East & West Africa and from 1790 to the present as a culturally Mixed woman explores the influence of the “one -drop rule” on her family and society. All proceeds from the Sunday, June 30th show will go to MASC – Multiracial Americans of Southern California – in celebration of Loving Day.

For more information, click here.

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