ARTS IN REVIEW WELCOMES THREE SOLO LADIES THIS WEEK

Pacifica Radio’s Arts in Review welcomes three female performers, discussing their solo shows, currently being showcased at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2018. Debrianna Mansini (The Meatball Chronicles), Monique DeBose’ show (Mulatto Math) and Stacy Dymalski (The Other Side Of The Razor Ribbon) join arts Journalist Julio Martinez today, June 8, on KPFK 90.7FM (2-2:30PM).

Actress Debrianna Mansini’s The Meatball Chronicles follows one woman through humorous and sometimes heart wrenching meals that align with stories of her childhood, her relationships with men, and in particular, her complicated relationship to her mother. Mansini crafts this piece in a way that transcends her own story into universal themes. As she kneads the dough and thickens the sauce through each Italian recipe, the stories associated with those recipes reveal the complex ways that families cope, laugh, grieve, and show their love through food. The Meatball Chronicles premieres at Broadwater Second Stage, 6320 Santa Monica Blvd., on June 9, 10 and 13.

Award-winning playwright and Jazz-R&B-pop singer/songwriter Monique DeBose’s Mulatto Math: Summing Up The Race Equation in America explores race, family and identity through her unique lens of being born to a southern African American father and Irish upstate New York mother. Performed with original music, Monique exposes the beauty, disgrace and complication of both the black and white worlds she experienced growing up amid the political and racial tension in the seventies that is still prevalent today. Mulatto Math plays at The Lounge Theatre (Lounge I), 6201 Santa Monica Blvd., on June 9, 29, 21 and 23.

Writer/comedian Stacy Dymalski’s one-woman show The Other Side Of The Razor Ribbon is the true story of how she helped federal prisoner David C. Taylor write about his career as a human trafficker of illegal immigrants along the California border. Completely broke from divorce, Stacy reluctantly signs on to mentor David because she needs the money. Stacy soon discovers David’s story reveals a compassionate side of illegal immigration we’ve never seen before, as told by a boots-on-the-ground insider who just happens to be born a white, U.S. citizen in middle-class America. (The Other Side Of The Razor Ribbon premieres at Studio C Theatre, 6448 Santa Monica Blvd, performing June 10, June 13, June 16, June 21 and June 23.