A Traveling Script: Labor Migration, Precarity, and Performance

Pratt, Geraldine; Johnston, Caleb; Banta, Vanessa

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A Traveling Script: Labor Migration, Precarity, and Performance

Geraldine Pratt,

Geraldine Pratt

Geraldine Pratt is Professor of Geography and Canada Research Chair in Transnationalism and Precarious Labour at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Working Feminism (Temple University Press, 2004) and Families Apart: Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love (University of Minnesota Press, 2012), coauthor of Gender, Work and Space (Routledge, 1995) and Film and Urban Space: Critical Possibilities (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), and coeditor of The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time (Columbia University Press, 2012). [email protected]

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Caleb Johnston,

Caleb Johnston

Caleb Johnston is a theatre maker and human geographer at Newcastle University. His work engages the intersection between performance and politics, and theatre as a site for social and physical dialogue. He has curated and produced several main stage productions at Vancouver’s PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. [email protected]

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Vanessa Banta

Vanessa Banta was born and raised in the city of Metro Manila, Philippines, and is currently a PhD student in Geography at the University of British Columbia. Before coming to UBC, she was a faculty member in the Department of Theatre and Speech Communications at the University of the Philippines. She received MAs in Performance Studies from New York University and Theatre Studies from Florida State University. [email protected]

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Geraldine Pratt

Geraldine Pratt is Professor of Geography and Canada Research Chair in Transnationalism and Precarious Labour at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Working Feminism (Temple University Press, 2004) and Families Apart: Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love (University of Minnesota Press, 2012), coauthor of Gender, Work and Space (Routledge, 1995) and Film and Urban Space: Critical Possibilities (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), and coeditor of The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time (Columbia University Press, 2012). [email protected]

Caleb Johnston

Caleb Johnston is a theatre maker and human geographer at Newcastle University. His work engages the intersection between performance and politics, and theatre as a site for social and physical dialogue. He has curated and produced several main stage productions at Vancouver’s PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. [email protected]

Vanessa Banta

Vanessa Banta was born and raised in the city of Metro Manila, Philippines, and is currently a PhD student in Geography at the University of British Columbia. Before coming to UBC, she was a faculty member in the Department of Theatre and Speech Communications at the University of the Philippines. She received MAs in Performance Studies from New York University and Theatre Studies from Florida State University. [email protected]

Online ISSN: 1531-4715

Print ISSN: 1054-2043

2017

TDR/The Drama Review (2017) 61 (2 (234)): 48–70.

https://doi.org/10.1162/DRAM_a_00647

Abstract

Originally performed in Vancouver, the testimonial play Nanay was developed to address the politics and hard ethical dilemmas of caregivers and migrant labor in Canada. When moved from Vancouver to the Philippines, the play was considerably revised with input from the community to consider the problems facing Filipino live-in caregivers from within the context of their home country.

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