Ruby Slippers Theatre production in association with The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts Grandma. Gangsta. Guerrilla.

This ain’t a sob story about war crimes, dementia, nor getting old. It’s a sprint down the memory lane of a butt-kickin’, bar-spittin’, tough grandma who escapes the care home to be with her family. When our favorite Filipino grandma Lola Basyang goes missing, it’s up to her grandchildren Nika and Jun-jun to bring her back to safety. Using their lola’s unfinished memoir, they find clues to her whereabouts, her full-of-beans origin story and the historical turmoils of their motherland. Reminiscent of their immigration stories, they reflect on what it means to maintain family ties in a Western society.

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Production Team
Playwright: Abi Padilla
Director: Leslie Dos Remedios
Lighting Design: Jonathan Kim
Projection Design: Andie Lloyd
Set Design: Kimira Reddy
Sound Design: Riley Hardwick
Musical Director: Argel Monte de Ramos
Fight and Intimacy: Affair of Honor, Nathania Bernabe and Jacki Hanlin
Props Design: Heidi Wilkinson
Costume Design: Sarah Sosick
Dramaturgy: Kamila Sediego
Stage Manager: Jennifer Wilson
Apprentice Stage Manager: Vicki Santos
Apprentice Director: Isaac Stuber Li
Technical Director/Production Manager: Nico Dicecco

Actors:
Abigail Padilla - Basyang
Raugi Yu - Boss Mayhem, Pedro, Prologue Attacker
Vince Sendrijas - Jun Jun, Radio Reporter, Tagalog
Yorlene Bernido - Nika
Terrence Zhou - Ken, Captain Manaka, Prologue Attacker
Kevin Nguyen - Nurse Chaz, TV Reporter 2018, Customer, Makapili, Soldier 1944, gang member
Evelyn Chew - Prologue Attacker, Commader Lumen, Police Officer , Reporter 1993, gang member

Content Warning:
. Coarse Language
. Brief Mentions and References to Sexual Assault
. Mentions of War

Doors open 30 minutes prior to show, please note for some shows latecomers may not be guaranteed entry.

TICKET FEES
All Ages $25.00

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