Asian Story Theater
Where We Lay Our Sorrows Down
A one-act play with puppets and soundscape by ARTS (A Reason to Survive) that explores grief and the healing power of Nature. Written by Thelma Virata de Castro, the play is part of her Far South/Border North Cultivating JOY social justice campaign.
Content Advisory: Grief, death, implied suicide.
Preview/promo video
Highlights
Complete show (fixed camera)
PROGRAM
C A S T
Lola~Gingerlily Lowe
CJ~Elias Enguancho
Coach~Paul Araujo
Carmela~Jaena-Mae Caguiat
C R E A T I V E T E A M
Playwright~Thelma Virata de Castro
Co-Directors~KL (Kent) Brisby and Claudette Santiago
Producers~KL (Kent) Brisby and Thelma
Virata de Castro
Stage Manager~Suanne Pauley
Muralist~Kalí Kamaria
ARTS Teaching Artists~Pablo Dodero and
Sheena Rae Dowling
ARTS Cultivating JOY Interns
Thelma Virata de Castro
I explore challenging issues with honesty and compassion. I employ humor as an opportunity to breathe and build trust. I center the stories of women and people of color. In my interview-based work, I practice deep listening and respect for each person’s experiences. I’m interested in resilience and a spirituality of belonging with nature. As a teaching artist, I share my creative practice with marginalized people. I build community with writers and other creatives. My life is vitally connected to my art. I always look for the hope.
Gingerlily Lowe is an actor, director, writer, songwriter, teaching artist and a founding member of Asian Story Theater -formerly Chinese Story Theater. She was a founding member and past president on San Diego’s first Asian American Theater company–Pacific Asian Actors’ Ensemble, and also the Magic Machine. She is proud of the decades of multi-ethnic theater she has been a part of and able to help produce, celebrating Asian American art and culture, and bringing new faces, voices, and stories to the community. She has been a teaching artist with Young Audiences/Arts for Learning, Institute for Arts Education, and currently is on the teaching artist staff for Guitars in the Classroom, and the Education Director for Asian Story Theater.
KL (Kent) BRISBY
Kent is a writer and producer with a broad background in adapting diverse narrative and performing arts traditions from around the world into new works, often featuring music. Upcoming projects include a new musical set during the Mexican Revolution, REVOLUCIÓN, as well as the upcoming BIG MONEY. He recently wrote and produced THE LAST CENSUS for Asian Story Theater, and other past projects include RED, WHITE & BLACKLISTED and THE MUSICAL PAUL GAUGUIN, as well as leading development on STORIES OF THE SUN CAFE, HALO HALO, and the anthology series THE COFFEE PLAYS. Originally from Nebraska, Kent grew up on various Micronesian Island groups, with some time in Hawaii, before returning to the states. He graduated from Whitman College in the Pacific Northwest before settling in San Diego as a performer and director with the San Diego Street Theater.
