Playwright Carla Ching wrote her new play 'Revenge Porn or the Story of a Body' because she rarely saw messy, human, complex characters who looked like her onstage.
protagonist Kat Chan is rocked by a betrayal by someone she loves when her ex-husband releases intimate photos of her online.
Ching was inspired to write the play after reading about Emma Holten’s Consent project. When Holten’s Facebook and email accounts were hacked in 2011, private nude photos she saved on her accounts were shared online. She responded in 2015 by creating a photo series with photographer Cecilie Bødker Jensen that showed her nude and doing everyday tasks. Holten wrote in anthat she did the project to make herself “a sexual subject instead of an object.
For Cubría, “Revenge Porn or the Story of a Body” emboldens its cast to take on roles that they are typically restricted from. “I wanted to have complex, nuanced, amazing characters on stage and write these roles for a lot of Asian American actors, but identity and being Asian American isn’t necessarily the point,” she says. “They’re not wrestling with their identity as being Asian Americans. They are Asian American people going about their lives, and crazy stuff happens to them.”
Tina Huang, who plays the leading character Kat Chan, pointed out how a majority of the people on and off stage for the production identify as Asian American or Pacific Islander. After experiencing her own setbacks while being typecast because of her race, she says she felt seen for her complexities by being able to play Chan.
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