Mulatto Math: Summing Up the Race Equation in America

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Santa Monica Playhouse has been a cultural treasure in the seaside community for 63 years. Now, the Playhouse is giving love back with its 8th Annual Binge Free Festival (BFF), five weeks of free performances, workshops, readings, music and poetry in Santa Monica’s ONLY fringe festival. What’s on today?

Mulatto Math: Summing Up the Race Equation in America - 7:00 PM, The Other Space, 60 min, 16+

An edgy one woman show written and performed by Monique DeBose. Through original music and stories of her family’s history, this mixed-race woman (from an African American father from the segregated south and Irish American mother from upstate New York) shares her most vulnerable stories around her exploration of family, race and identity. As an audience member, you get the have the experience of being a fly on the wall for some of the most potent and real conversations from 'the other side'. A heartfelt, funny and intimate look at race and the implications of race-consciousness in America. Yes, it's one woman's story...but audiences from all backgrounds have found themselves and heard their own voices in Monique's story. Directed by Denise Dowse.

BFF 2023 Binge Fringe Festival of Free Theatre is presented through generous grants from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, the City of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Arts Commission, and Playhouse PALS.

Any protocols in effect on the date of the performance will be observed. Masking is no longer required. We have extras if you’d like. Just ask.