Intersection for the Arts
925 Mission St
415.626.2787
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Fukú Americanus, Photo: Sharif Abu Hamdeh
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May 14, 2009 – June 21, 2009
Thursdays–Sundays (8pm)
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- Price
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$15 - 25
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Acting group Campo Santo cook up an extremely playful take on Junot Diaz's Pulitzer-prize winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in Fukú Americanus. The story of Oscar, an overweight sci-fi nerd and a hopeless romantic in the truest sense, unravels against the enlarged backdrop of the Dominican flag — whose shadow (vibrant as it is) also encompasses the larger tale of a supernatural curse afflicting all of the Americas, and, by extension, Oscar's family in Paterson, NJ. His comically macabre goth sister, his mythologically tyrannical mother, and a playboy friend with a soft heart for oafish teens all charm their way into your heart, before jerking its strings hard.
