The Pink Detachment

Synopsis

The Pink Detachment is an update of “The Red Detachment of Women” (1964), a Model Opera from China’s Cultural Revolution. Here the protagonists are an accident-prone worker and a ballerina-manager who has the tools to alleviate the worker’s problems. At the center of the piece is the color equation, Red + White = Pink, from which multiple parallel meanings emerge. The first is the old term “pinko,” meaning a watered down Communism, or a liberal with uncommitted Red sympathies. The second is a proposal to solve future crises in meat supply by re-valuating hot dog and sausage production as a solution, by integrating ‘undesirable’ portions of pig with the ‘desirable’ portions, embodying perfect equivalence in consumable form. And the third is pink as femininity – not as a ‘natural’ fleshy softness, but rather a synthetic, engineered (and potentially violent) hybridity.

Main Cast

Katharine Liu

Accident-Prone Worker

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Mayu Oguri

Manager Ballerina

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Corey Tazmania

Narrator

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Isabelle Zufferey Boulton

Narrator

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Eli Condon

Company Dancer

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Jasmine Hong

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Nathalie Encarnacion

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Maura Harris

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Jen Liu
Camera	Director of Photography	Maria Rusche
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