Big Pharma Azeem's RUDE BOY

Jennifer Berry's BIG PHARMA Nov 4, thru Dec10, 2006 8pm Sat 8pm Sun 7pm, with a post show discussion Jennifer Berry’s one woman show about the rise of the anti-depressant drug industry and the loss of a generation is a seventy-five minute look at the atrocious and preposterous idea that Americans can be conned into demanding medications by their doctors, Big Pharma sheds light on the crass marketing techniques used to peddle pills to an unassuming public. Big Pharma uses an array of characters to investigate the impact of the pharmaceutical industry on the lives of women and children in the US. Using a mix of multi-media and twenty-well-etched characters drawn from personal experience and interviews, Berry examines the growing power of the legal drug industry and its effect on herself, her friends, and her generation. In what she has coined “the Great Anti-Depression,” Berry juxtaposes the market-driven eagerness to pathologize our contemporary social ills against the Great Depression, a time when people looked to each other for collective comfort and support.

The Marsh Berkeley presents

Azeem's RUDE BOY

Dec 6 thru Jan 27
Dec 6-14 wed & thurs at 8:00 pm
Jan 4 - Jan 27 thur, fri & sat at 8pm
Tickets $10-22 Sliding Scale

East Bay Express which crowned Azeem ‘2004 Best of the Bay - Hip Hop Artist” says, “Rude Boy is intense, revelatory, transcendent, brilliant, poignant, and tragic.”

The SF Bay Guardian writes-“Its combination of raw energy, deft delivery, beautifully honed characters, and inspired narrative flow was so transporting - I actually lost my hang-over!”

Oakland Post proclaims who claims to love contemporary theater and does not go is committing sacrilege.”

Consider a reunion with dead entertainers, a comical alien abduction and a revelation concerning the inner workings of “Gods Rolex”, and you might be able guess what’s coming next. Azeem tells the story of Johnny Burke. A night shift janitor for a small Mexican owned cardboard box factory. The audience is quickly transported into a world where, Demitrius has a spirit child in his hand, the white kids with dreads are starting the revolution, and televisions are manufactured to watch people back.