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Yossi Vassa
It Sounds Better in Amharic
AfroSolo International
Thursday May 24, 8pm*
Saturday, May 26, 4:30pm
Sunday, May 27, 7pm
Tickets $15 General Admission
African American Arts & Culture Complex
762 Fulton St, San Francisco
Presented by AfroSolo Theatre Company, AAACC, The Israel Center and SFIAF, Inc.
* Thursday is a shared bill with Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Nawal and SuAndi
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| It Sounds Better in Amharic is actor and comedian Yossi Vassa’s personal account of a 440-mile journey on foot from Ethiopia to a refugee camp in Sudan and then, finally, to Israel. Vassa was born in 1975 in the village of Uzava, in northern Ethiopia; and in 1984 he and his family were part of Operation Moses, in which thousands of Ethiopian Jews were resettled in Israel. It Sounds Better in Amharic stages poignant moments -- from the journey, dreams, traditions, and lives of Ethiopian immigrants -- and opens an often hilarious window to the immigrants' cross-cultural encounter with the realities of modern Israeli society.
“If there is one piece that literally embodies the Festival’s theme of the African Diaspora it would have to be It Sounds Better in Amharic,” said Thomas R. Simpson, AfroSolo Artistic Director. “Yossi Vassa treats the subject of forced displacement alternately with a quiet poignancy and an uproarious humor that all audiences can find a way to relate to.”
AfroSolo Theatre Company's mission is to nurture, promote, and present African American and African Diaspora art and culture through solo performances and the visual arts. Since 1993, we have provided a forum to give an authentic voice to the diverse experiences of Black people in the Americas. Through art, we bring people of different ethnicities together to explore and share the human spirit that binds us all.
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