In 2003, playwright Yvette Sirker began writing “Pink Collar Crime”. It was a play she considered a “meditation on the cycles of human existence”. In her original playwright’s notes from June 2004, she wrote: “Everything in life moves in a circular pattern: the seasons, the earth, our DNA, the cycle of life and death, and of course, hurricanes. In the wake of the destruction of the Louisiana wetlands, turn of the 21st Century New Orleans is a city now vulnerable to annihilation by hurricanes in a way that was unthinkable only forty years ago. Pink Collar Crime is a depiction ...Read More
In 2003, playwright Yvette Sirker began writing “Pink Collar Crime”. It was a play she considered a “meditation on the cycles of human existence”. In her original playwright’s notes from June 2004, she wrote: “Everything in life moves in a circular pattern: the seasons, the earth, our DNA, the cycle of life and death, and of course, hurricanes. In the wake of the destruction of the Louisiana wetlands, turn of the 21st Century New Orleans is a city now vulnerable to annihilation by hurricanes in a way that was unthinkable only forty years ago. Pink Collar Crime is a depiction of a group of New Orleans residents facing the harsh reality of life in the shadow of possible annihilation by a Category 3 or higher hurricane. Forced to take stock of their lives, and their loves, these New Orleanians are also forced to take action to survive the loss of everything they understand to be home.” On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of Louisiana. The subsequent levee breaks decimated 80% of the city of New Orleans. As a result, Pink Collar Crime turned from a work of fiction into an account of two days before the worst natural disaster in the history of the USA. Written by award winning playwright Yvette Sirker, Pink Collar Crime was lauded, Pre-Katrina, as the most important new work to come from Louisiana in over fifty years. Times Picayune Theater Critic, David Cuthbert, writes - “Sirker, who was born in the city, is not clairvoyant, just smart and environmentally aware.” This play is a must see. Through laughter and tears, Ms. Sirker makes audiences leave the theater thinking long and hard about what it means to call New Orleans, or the Gulf Coast, “home”. A first rate cast of “refugee” actors will venture back into the destroyed city to perform in this project.
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