Ariel Estrada wrote a one-man play that’s coming to Juneau this week. In fact, it’s the world premiere of Full Contact, a play that stretches from his father’s immigration to Southeast Alaska, to teaching LGBTQ+ self-defense at a martial arts dojo in New York City. The show’s run in Juneau kicks off Wednesday with a pay-as–you-can preview.
This is Tongass Voices, a series from KTOO sharing weekly perspectives from the homelands of the Áak’w Kwáan and beyond.
Hi, I’m Ariel Estrada, and I am the writer and performer of the play Full Contact, which is performing at Perseverance Theater, December 6 through 22nd directed by Leslie Ishii. The times when they came here in the late 19th century, there wasn’t the ability to really stay in many communities. Because they were segregated, they were kept out of being able to actually maintain a place to stay. This thankfully started easing up over time, and they were able to start settling in the places that they were being migrant workers at, including Alaska, Southeast Alaska in particular. And because of that, there’s a pretty significant Filipino population here in Alaska.
And also in that background, having this martial arts organization sort of overarching the entire experience.
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