We just closed out an incredible successful run of Cirque Exotique du Monde, a world premiere play about standing as a family against a Nazi threat. This year has seen an uptick in ugliness in America which made this show particularly powerful for our cast and crew. The Sacramento Bee recently reported that California alone has seen an incredible increase in hate crimes over the past two years. According to the July California Justice Department report on crimes, there's been an increase in reported hate crimes of 21.3% in 2016 and currently an additional increase of 11.2% in 2017. Here at the Dragon Theatre we believe in empathy and compassion for others and are proud to present this new play as a reminder, both of the ugliness of the worst of humanity and the beauty of the best humanity, and we believe that like the Cirque Exotique, standing together as a collective family trumps hatred every time.
If you stand with Dragon in believing in compassion for all, you can learn more about, or donate to, one of the following organizations:
The Anti-Defamation League of San Francisco: http://sanfrancisco.adl.org
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Northern California Branch: http://ca.cair.com
The ACLU of Northern California: https://www.aclunc.org
The Southern Poverty Law Center: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate
-Team Dragon and the cast & crew of Cirque Exotique du Monde
The Dragon Theatre is a small 65 seat black box theatre in downtown Redwood City that presents unusual plays year-round.
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