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Jul 16, 2009
Fringe Festival: Sari to Skin
Sari to Skin is local actor/poet Neelam Patel’s third solo show, currently running at the spartan Apothecary in this year’s Capital Fringe Festival. The tastefully staged production is without a clear storyline. Rather, it is set as a series of biographical poems and monologues through which Patel communicates her struggles with her identity as someone who is “too Indian to be American, and too American to be Indian.” Patel’s writing is lucid and her…