Citizen Liu in Citizen Who
A Civic Entrepreneur Tackles Citizenship In a New Debut
The premiere performance of Citizen Who—a one-man show written and produced as part of author and civic entrepreneur Eric Liu’s fellowship at the Center for Social Cohesion at Arizona State University—opened with the Zócalo audience at The Actors’ Gang being asked to stand to take an oath. It’s an oath familiar to some Americans but very foreign to most—the U.S. naturalization oath: I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, of whom or …
