Brava Presents
BE LIKE WATER
A New Play by Kat Evasco
October 18 - 19, 2024
Showtime @ 7:30pm, Theater Doors @ 7:00pm
Brava Main Stage
Be Like Water, a new work-in-progress by Kat Evasco examines the mental health impacts of anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies on undocumented families through the story of Lorna, the matriarch of a Filipino American family of four women. Tensions build as they come to terms with their differing immigration statuses and the lies that Lorna tells to keep her adult daughters in the dark about their “illegal” status. The family is thrown into further turmoil when Lorna’s daughter decides to leave for the Philippines to see her estranged dying father, knowing she can never return to the US.
With immigration and the border being among the most divisive political issues during this election year, the media is already saturated with anti-immigrant rhetoric and new legislative measures to criminalize migrants, refugees, and undocumented immigrants. With Asians having the fastest growing number of undocumented immigrants in the United States, Be Like Water is a story intended for immigrant communities and connects deeply with the Asian and Filipino diaspora. “My play aims to humanize immigrant communities and reflect back our dignity and agency to transcend barriers, physical and mental walls created to disempower and disenfranchise our communities, “ states Evasco. There are over 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States, and while we are not able to vote in the elections, we have the power to move voters culturally, economically, and politically.
Kat Evasco is an artist-in-residence at Brava for Women in the Arts!
TICKETS
$15-50 sliding scale
ABOUT the artist
Kat Evasco
award-winning writer, theatermaker, comedian and cultural strategist
Kat Evasco is an award-winning writer, theatermaker, comedian and cultural strategist committed to honoring and celebrating the experiences of immigrants, women and LGBTQ communities. In 2020, Kat was awarded the Kenneth Rainin New & Experimental Works (NEW) Program Grant towards the premiere of her new play Be Like Water produced by Brava Theater in San Francisco. Building on the success of her autobiographical one-woman show Mommy Queerest co-written by John Caldon, Kat supports artists to produce solo shows. Kat’s current solo theater projects include directing Prieto by Yosimar Reyes and Not My First Pandemic by Cesar Cadabes, which received Best One Man Show and All About Solo Critics Award at United Solo Festival 2021. She is a 2018 Lambda Literary Fellow in Playwriting and her works have been featured on Deadline, IndieWire, Vice, Shondaland, Bustle, The Advocate, Out Magazine, and NBC News Asian America. Kat is the founder and CEO of With You Productions and holds a BA in Asian American Studies from San Francisco State University.