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Listen to Shakina Nayfack s Play on Trans Sisterhood in Thailand February 19 2021 6:49 AM EST Live theater is on hold for now, but thanks to Audible’s collaboration with the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Shakina Nayfack’s play, , which features several transgender luminaries, is available for your listening pleasure. The play was intended for an in-person premiere before live theater was sidelined with shelter-in-place orders last March. But the collaboration with Audible offers the thoughtful, uplifting piece a platform to reach an even wider audience. In it, Nayfack ( Transparent, Difficult People) tells the story of “a vibrant, international group of transgender women [who] band together at a hotel in Thailand to confront the challenges and joys of gender confirmation surgery,” according to the Audible Originals’ synopsis. ....
Here s what s playing â FEB. 19-25 â at in-person and virtual cinemas in the Berkshires and environs. Where films have been reviewed, the capsules include the name of film critic and the day the full review was posted on berkshireeagle.com. All reviews are by Associated Press critics. 76 DAYS On January 23rd, 2020, China locked down Wuhan, a city of 11 million, to combat the emerging COVID-19 outbreak. Set deep inside the frontlines of the crisis, this documentary tells indelible human stories at the center of this pandemic â from a woman begging in vain to bid a final farewell to her father, a grandpa with dementia searching for his way home, a couple anxious to meet their newborn, to a nurse determined to return personal items to families of the deceased. These raw and intimate stories bear witness to the death and rebirth of a city under a 76-day lockdown, and to the human resilience that persists in times of profound tragedy. 1 hour, 33 minutes. VC ....
Actor Dean Imperial Enters the Gig Economy Through Quantum Cabling in Lapsis Exclusive Clip By Actor Dean Imperial appears in ShockYa’s exclusive clip from writer-director-editor Noah Hutton’s sci-fi film, ‘Lapsis.’ The ever-changing world markets are influencing the existences of people of all economic classes. Actor Dean Imperial‘s protagonist of Ray in the upcoming sci-fi movie, ‘Lapsis,’ is forced to take on a new blue-collar job in an ever-changing gig economy, in an effort to take care of his ailing younger brother, but is ultimately faced with increasing socioeconomic inequality. Film Movement will release the drama tomorrow, Friday, February 11, on Virtual Cinema. The official distribution comes after ‘Lapsis’ was selected to have its World Premiere during last year’s SXSW. ....
Here s what s playing â FEB. 12-18 â at in-person and virtual cinemas in the Berkshires and environs. Where films have been reviewed, the capsules include the name of film critic and the day the full review was posted on berkshireeagle.com. All reviews are by Associated Press critics. ACASA, MY HOME For two decades, the Enache family â nine kids and their parentsâ lived in a shack in the wilderness of Bucharest Delta: an abandoned water reservoir, one of the biggest urban natural reservations in the world, with lakes and hundreds of species of animals and rare plants. When the authorities decide to claim back this rare urban ecosystem, the Enache family is evicted and told to resettle in the city â a reality they know nothing about. Kids that used to spend their days in nature have to learn about city life, go to school instead of swimming in the lake, and swap their fishing rods for mobile phones. Their identity has been questioned and transformed ....
Written by Shakina Nayfack Directed by Laura Savia “There’s always going to be something you’re gonna wanna fix. Welcome to being a woman.” Does anyone besides me remember the play “The Women” by Clare Boothe Luce? It first appeared on Broadway in 1936. It made a delicious film in 1939 with Norma Shearer, Rosalind Russell, Joan Crawford, and a bevy of characters played by the cream of the Hollywood crop. Ultimately, in this comedy about women, gossip, and divorce, the action moves from sophisticated urban New York City to a small dude ranch in Reno, Nev. There, where everyone is in some stage of divorcing their never-seen men (it’s an all-women cast), female intimacy brings out truths and removes the gossip. Reality becomes the tone of the day and honesty wins out over illusions. It’s a comedy. ....