TRENZAS at The CENTER for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck

TRENZAS playing at The CENTER for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck

TRENZAS is a generational play about inheritance; what we carry, what we resist, and what we rebraid. Following Alisha as she navigates family, queerness, college, and cultural expectation, the piece centers everyday moments - hair rituals, phone calls unanswered, memories half-spoken - to ask how Afro-Latinx identity is shaped within and beyond the home.

Last seen with the Parsnip Ship Audio Series in their 6th Season, you don’t want to miss this opportunity to laugh, cry, care, and relate to Alisha, who is trying to find herself; and what eighteen- year old isn't? Faced with the first generation complex of not being the perfect example of your people,what do we call the expectations passed down by our culture and how they shape our understanding of ourselves?

AUGUST 7TH @ 7:30pm

AUGUST 8TH @ 7:30pm

AUGUST 9TH @ 3pm

Tickets start at $15 - available online here: https://www.centerforperformingarts.org/black-box/trenzas

“TRENZAS isn’t just my story, it’s the story of so many people living between the binary of their culture and the culture OF assimilation. We live in a melting pot so we don’t always see the parts that get blended down to fit into the overall taste of our community” - Janelle Lawrence

Lemon Balm Productions is a National Production company focusing on the fullness of the artistic and audience experience. We recently produced Rosalind and Juliet in Craryville, NY and following TRENZAS we will premiere the Staged Reading of A Raisin’ on Up by Janelle Lawrence. Learn more about us here