She NYC Arts Summer Theater Festival - Fish Meat

Fish Meat
By Esme Maria Ng

An examination of the fraught intertwinement of labor, sexual violence, and the complex beauty of marine biology.

FISH MEAT braids the lives of Mingzhu, a 14 year old girl on a boat going from Hong Kong to San Francisco in 1890, and Ro, a PhD candidate studying marine biology in present-day California. Merging marine taxonomy, Lewis Carroll, and histories of immigration and exploitation, this heartfelt play explores how our care for others can reveal the care we deserve for ourselves and asks: How do we categorize sexual violence?

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