SALT PEPPER KETCHUP
“Being from Philadelphia and living in a neighborhood that is currently being gentrified, I felt a duty to give voice to my community. Whenever I go back home to visit, I realized that the community I grew up in is quickly leaving, and what is so fascinating to me is that the Bodegas and Chinese Take-Outs are not. Stores like Master Wok were here before I was born and will probably remain after my new neighborhood is complete. Being here in San Francisco is really ironic because it feels like a living cautionary tale of gentrification. The leading question of SALT PEPPER KETCHUP is ‘How would immigrant business owners in the hood react if the threat of gentrification walked into their store?’” - Josh Wilder, Creator
WRITTEN BY Josh Wilder
DIRECTED BY Thomas Pang
ASSOCIATE DIRECTED BY Aidaa Peerzada
DATES Sept 29-Oct 8, 2017
LOCATION Buriel Clay Theater, African American Arts and Culture Complex
DESCRIPTION SALT PEPPER KETCHUP is a bitter comedy centering on John and Linda Wu, two newly minted American citizens who’ve hewn their piece of the American Dream out of plexiglass and chicken wings, smack dab in the middle of the hood. Enter a new supermarket Co-op and its vanguard- the pioneers for the “new generation” to come. Salt Pepper Ketchup is a contemporary dissection of what happens to people when you threaten where they belong.
FEATURING Will Way Chen, Weijen Liao, Craig King, Ashley Raggs, Alanna Darby, Jess Rankin, Geoffrey Malveaux, Ron Chapman.
Scenic Designer: Hector Zavala
Lighting Designer: Lauren Tannous-Weisgerber
Fight Choreographer: Kai Young
Stage Manager: Jamila Cobham
Assistant Stage Manager: Adan Faudoa
Josh Wilder, Marcelo Javier, and Aidaa Peerzada with Mayor London Breed.
