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about CAPACITY TO ENTER:
"A sexual adventure to an elusive but compelling spiritual
destination...both comic and affecting...Sam's engaging ease as
narrator and performer is a large part of what makes the show so
charming...but it's her text that proves irresistible..." The San
Francisco Examiner
"Sam shows her wit and gift for well-crafted
storylines as she navigates through social movements, Buddhist
precepts, highland Tibetan trails, and three Bay Area lovers...A
looping, lyrical performance...She excites and enlivens her audience with this
Buddhist, feminist, queer, and quite fun meditation on lust and
life." San Francisco City Search
"CAPACITY TO ENTER stands
bisexuality on its head...Bold, original, intelligent, and
laugh-out-loud funny...immersing us in that age-old question: what
then is the true path of the human heart?" Leslie Kirk Campbell,
Ripe Fruit School of Creative Writing
"You enact and complicate issues of
gender, sexual orientation, race, and ethnicity in your work in a
manner that invites students to analyze their own locations and how
their attitudes toward difference have been shaped by our
culture. Many students told me that seeing your performance
helped them raise questions that simply reading an essay or story
would not have enabled them to do." Joy S. Ritchie, Professor
of English, Director of Women's Studies
Program, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
about TAXI KARMA and THE DISSIDENT:
"A master
storyteller...one of the best of the next wave of Asian American
performing artists...she pushes the elasticity of the performance
art genre into a mold for her own voice." The Village
Voice
"Conveys both the sorrow and beauty of a dispossessed
culture. Truly a mesmerizing 'theatre of conscience' piece."
San
Francisco Weekly
"A natural and winning performer."
San Jose
Mercury News
"Her genius lies in her ability to inspire through
storytelling." Bay Area Reporter
"Compelling, unpretentious,
ingenuous delivery." Los Angeles Times
"It's as if Spalding Gray
had made 'Swimming to Cambodia' without talking about himself as
much....Personal journalism in dramatic form."
San Francisco
Examiner
"I was impressed by the integrity of Canyon Sam's
work...that her material matters greatly to her enriches its
presentation with a strength and passion rare in commercial theatre.
This quality, allied with her complete professionalism, makes for
exciting art. Audiences deserve the chance to see work of this
originality and merit." Kathleen Weiss, Artistic Director,
Women in
View Theatre Festival, Vancouver, B.C.
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