a solo show written & performed by SEAN DEVARE
directed by ALEX M. LEE

In First Violin, writer-performer Sean Devare chronicles his search for, and recreation of the fabled ancestor of the violin, invented by the demon(ized) king Ravana, echoing his song through the underworld of Manhattan.
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First Violin is eligible for the Backstage Audience Award at United Solo Fest!

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A visionary documentary of a brown man's psyche and a razor-sharp conversation with himself, and us, poeticizing the inner and outer madness of navigating today's America."
 
— Stew (Tony-award winner, "Passing Strange")

​​While few can account for their own lifetime, Devare time-surfs a couple millennia in 'First Violin.' Western and Asian cultures collide and collude in his colorful retelling of the Ramayana, which he reinterprets through inventive autobiographical unmaskings and pop-culture interrogations demonstrating, among many other things, why they don't call it classic rock for nothing.”
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— Richard Gehr (author; writer at Spin, Rolling Stone, Village Voice)