近距离内射合集

The psychological and paranormal spiritual play 鈥淏ad Medicine鈥� turns typical horror on its head as a Native American couple faces peril in Proctor, Massachusetts.

The play is making its world premiere at the Santa Fe Playhouse Thursday, Aug. 6, through Sunday, Aug. 30.

鈥淚t鈥檚 like 鈥楪et Out鈥� meets 鈥楻osemary鈥檚 Baby,鈥欌�� Tara Moses, who is playing Aislin Alvarez, said.

She said 鈥淏ad Medicine鈥� is thrilling to be a part of because it feels authentic. Spirits are present to help and protect 鈥� the opposite of so many horror tropes.

鈥淚t feels like such an exciting opportunity to have Native spirituality be part of a horror telling,鈥� Moses said. 鈥淏ut not in the way of, like, 鈥極h, it is the big bad scary.鈥欌��

Kholan Studi, playing Cesar Alvarez, said it鈥檚 fascinating to be in a show where Indigenous people are the focus rather than another stereotype or archetype.

鈥淚t鈥檚 awesome that we now get to be the victims, and that鈥檚 such a weird way to put it,鈥� Studi said. 鈥淏ut we get to be the victims of these extremely terrifying realities that can come up.鈥�

Moses is a citizen of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, playing a character who is Osage. She grew up with an Osage reservation right next to hers and has pulled from that familiarity as she plays Aislin. She said it gave her a place to start to approach the role respectfully.

鈥淚t also feels like a really lovely thing to do to uplift a fellow Oklahoma tribe,鈥� she said.

Currently, she lives an hour from the place where the play is set, which has helped her bring the town in Massachusetts to the stage. One of the original 13 colonies, she said there is a feeling of hypervisibility and fetishization of Native people in Massachusetts still today.

鈥淭here is still this like antiquated, outdated view of Native people, and then also this like weird experience of Native people are such a rare commodity,鈥� Moses said.

The writer of 鈥淏ad Medicine,鈥� P.C. Verrone, spent time in Massachusetts and captures the eerie and fetishized view, she said.

Moses said the play covers many topics impacting Native communities, including cultural appropriation and missing and murdered Indigenous people, but it 鈥渇eels very expansive in the ways that it intersects with people of all identities.鈥�

Studi鈥檚 character is Laguna Pueblo, while Studi is a member of the Cherokee Nation. Studi said he and Cesar are both 鈥淯rban Indians,鈥� a term for Native people raised in cities.

鈥�(Cesar Alvarez) while he is Laguna Pueblo, he was born and raised in Oakland, California. So it鈥檚 also really exciting because I get to also represent an identity that is often a bit overlooked 鈥�,鈥� Studi said. 鈥淏ecause while he is a Laguna Pueblo person and is very connected to his culture through his parents and things like that, he also had a very different lived experience of growing up in a city where he wasn鈥檛 close to his community, which is something that I, as an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation who grew up in Santa Fe, very much understand.鈥�

鈥淭here is an interesting relationship with those kinds of things, but it doesn鈥檛 make them any less Native or who they are, as long as they want to come into their identity respectfully,鈥� Studi said.

鈥淏ad Medicine鈥� is about the power of 鈥淣ative folks resisting, but within this like horror context,鈥� Moses said. Her character Aislin has a huge theme of coming into her own power, which has been taken from her since birth.

鈥淲hen it comes to this power in staying true to who we are as Native people in the midst of appropriation, theft, ongoing cultural genocide and literal genocide,鈥� Moses said.

鈥淭he play ends very dramatically, so it鈥檚 like a reclaiming, a retaking of who we are and how we exist,鈥� Moses said.

Elizabeth Secor is an arts fellow for the 近距离内射合集. You can reach her at esecor@abqjournal.com.