Dry Swallow

<p><i>Took me twenty years from fetus to fuck-up </i><br><i>to know what weight looked like what</i><br><i>weight feels like what weight makes a body</i><br><i>do in place of freedom.</i> <p/>Sitting within the confines of a shipping container people are rendered commodity and turf is marked for value. Chula and Pal create competition on a Boyle Heights street corner. Nasir and Porter offer medicinal intake as artistic practice. Sik and Dori turn to drastic measures in order to save their family. <p/><i>Dry Swallow </i>explores surrogacy consumption and substance abuse while provoking the question: who's allowed a healthy life? <p/>Lucas Baisch's play was the recipient of The Kennedy Center's KCACTF 2020 Latinx Playwriting Award the Princess Grace Award in Playwriting (2021) and the Chesley/Bumbalo Award in Playwriting (2021).</p>