Paper Dolls

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Paper Dolls

Philip Himberg

Drama / General

“You know, Yossi, we couldn't dress like this in the Philippines… wear earrings, dye our hair, put on make up, lipstick. It's forbidden.”

In Tel Aviv, Israel, a group of Filipino immigrants work as live-in carers for elderly Orthodox Jewish men. Six days a week they provide dedicated support to their employers. But on the seventh day they transform into a homespun, sassy musical drag act. Meet the Paper Dolls!

An extraordinary true story exploring an unlikely collision of cultures and the universal desire to find 'home'.

Based on Tomer Heymann's award-winning documentary of the same name, Paper Dolls explores changing patterns of global immigration and expanding notions of family through the prism of a community of Filipino transvestites who live illegally in Israel.

Philip Himberg is the Producing Artistic Director of the Sundance Institute Theatre Program and serves on the Board of Directors at Theatre Communications Group. He has previously served as an adjunct professor of Theatre at NYU/Tisch and also teaches at Yale School of Drama.

Publication Date: 28 April 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Imprint: Methuen Drama
ISBN-13: 9781472511270
Format: Paperback softback
Page Count: 112
Weight (oz): 4.0

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