“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.
| ISBN: | 9781472511270 |
| Publication date: | 1st March 2013 |
| Author: | Philip Himberg |
| Publisher: | Methuen Drama an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 112 pages |
| Series: | Modern Plays |
| Genres: |
Plays, playscripts |