Trafficked 2.0

Really well done! Intriguing and heartbreaking story coupled with great performances, intense visuals, and a very creative and intelligent design. Thought provoking and gut punching. ... full review

What a beautiful way to tell a not so beautiful story. The choreography was creative and uniquely woven into the storyline.... full review

Beautifully conveyed this heart-wrenching incomprehensible reality in our country and world with a multi-lingual approach making it understandable and giving the piece a worldly scale. We are introduced to this slice of the world of Tracking from the prospective of a young Thai/Portorican girl on her 13th birthday when her freedom was taken away. ... full review

Peerada Meemalayath has expanded what was originally a one-woman show into a theater piece with 6 actors, three men and three women, on the topic of human trafficking. Through movement and dialogue in Thai, Spanish, and English, she suggests the international scope of this problem by following the plight of two young girls who have been kidnapped for use as prostitutes. They are watched over by their jailer, Auntie Em, quite different from her namesake in the Wizard of Oz. The story of one girl is based in fact; the other is fiction. Peerada shines a light on this terrible practice, and offers discussion at the end of the play as well as information about organizations that labor to help free people from such captivity. She describes an u... full review

Powerful and creative. A difficult story told through movement, music and dialogue. Peerada is a promising talent with capacity for deep exploration of topics that most would rather avoid. ... full review

It was quite a provocative piece on the subject matter of young girl sex trafficking.... full review

Amazing and intense... full review

It's a tough subject that Catalyst has decided to tackle, but one they do with respect and illumination.... full review

You can tell the hard work put behind this wonderful and harsh piece. The dances, the staging, the choreographies... everything was on point. It's an important subject that society needs to know about.... full review

This is a well done and powerful show that tackles a difficult subject in a very creative way. And when I say difficult, I mean it's difficult to watch what happens to the women in this show because we all know it's something that happens for real every day, even if it hasn't happened to anyone we know personally. Trafficked 2.0 handles this in a unique way. All the scenes of brutality are presented with mood lighting, music, movement and dance. This enables the audience to be affected by the emotion of what's happening, without turning away from the horror. It's a brilliant way to present the subject matter and something I really haven't seen before.... full review