About the Story
Called ‘a satirical slap in the face’ and ‘monstrously engaging’, this interactive buffon show about white guilt and charity challenges the audience to save the world in an evening. Facebook likes aren’t enough!
Maybe theatre can be?
Brian Sonia-Wallace is this super privileged white guy, and he knows that, but he’s really trying to help and he wants you ALL to come along with him. This isn’t just a show, it’s a gala!
Expect sensitivity trainings, safe spaces, the PC police, and plenty of crying over other people’s struggles. Journey to the heart of the Amazon (it’s so indigenous!) and sip on the sweet ayahuasca of how we’re not so different after all. Learn about effective, innovative, and efficient solutions (think the iPad) to problems like global hunger and Malaria. Easy, right? Become a beacon on a hill. Experience agape love. Give of yourself. Become one.
Namaste.
Maybe theatre can be?
Brian Sonia-Wallace is this super privileged white guy, and he knows that, but he’s really trying to help and he wants you ALL to come along with him. This isn’t just a show, it’s a gala!
Expect sensitivity trainings, safe spaces, the PC police, and plenty of crying over other people’s struggles. Journey to the heart of the Amazon (it’s so indigenous!) and sip on the sweet ayahuasca of how we’re not so different after all. Learn about effective, innovative, and efficient solutions (think the iPad) to problems like global hunger and Malaria. Easy, right? Become a beacon on a hill. Experience agape love. Give of yourself. Become one.
Namaste.
About the Production
From the creators of Bike Odyssey LA and in the tradition of Red Bastard and Butt Kapinski, White Man, Trying to Help was developed at the Son of Semele Solo Creation Festival and Highways Performance Space and is currently showing in a UK tour. Brian Sonia-Wallace (the performer) is a 2015 Doris Duke Impact Award Nominee and National Parks Artist-in-Residence with a history of work that straddles art, community development, and environmentalism. He wants people to leave feeling activated and connected with each other, but also feeling joyful and wanting to come back.