East Bay resident Lisa Marie Rolllin's new one-woman show comes at a very timely moment, given the discussions raised when Baptist missionaries were found attempting to bring Hatian "orphans" to the US after the recent earthquake. The responses of transracial and transnational adoptees were largely unreported by the mainstream media, perhaps in part because of the way that US adoption of kids-of-color from other countries is often framed as a charitable act that gives "those" kids a better life than they could ever hope to have in their home country.

In a context where adoption is seen as in the best interest of the child no matter what, adoptees of color who come forward to talk about the ways that racial dynamics played out in their families in ways that they found hurtful are often seen as "ungrateful" for the chances they were given through their adoption.

Rollin's work, Ungrateful Daughter: One Girl's Story of Being Adopted into a White Family ... that aren't celebrities, looks at many of the social issues that come to bear in transracial and transnational adoption, both in her own life and within adoptive communities around the world.

Directed by local performer and director W. Kamau Bell, Rollins has ample material to draw from, given her history of working in the transracial adoptee community locally as well as with parents of adopted children at local family camps.

Ungrateful Daughter

April 8 & April 22, 8 p.m.

StageWerx

533 Sutter St. (at Powell), San Francisco

Tickets $15-$2, http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/99603

More show information: http://birthproject.wordpress.com/ungrateful-daughter/

To support the project: http://www.indiegogo.com/Ungrateful-Daughter