“Say You Heard My Echo” is the story of three Asian American women in New York City a decade after 9/11 as they seek answers to life’s questions from female religious deities. With choral poems, prayers, activist folk songs, and raps, the play weaves together the characters’ struggles with survivorship and faith and their intimate relationships with Mary Magdalene, Guan Yin, and Aisha. Rendered with humor and humanity and in the fast-paced style of spoken word poetry, Say You Heard My Echo explores what the word “sacred” means in today’s world. What connects a Catholic burlesque dancer who survived the Twin Towers, a Buddhist Iraq war veteran and hip hop emcee who returns home, and a Muslim librarian whose family suffers detention and interrogation?

Performed by Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, YaliniDream, and Adeeba Rana

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Say You Heard My Echo (contains explicit language)