The Theatre of David Henry Hwang

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408185016
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Book Synopsis The Theatre of David Henry Hwang by : Esther Kim Lee

Download or read book The Theatre of David Henry Hwang written by Esther Kim Lee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the premiere of his play FOB in 1979, the Chinese American playwright David Henry Hwang has made a significant impact in the U. S. and beyond. The Theatre of David Henry Hwang provides an in-depth study of his plays and other works in theatre. Beginning with his "Trilogy of Chinese America", Esther Kim Lee traces all major phases of his playwriting career. Utilizing historical and dramaturgical analysis, she argues that Hwang has developed a unique style of meta-theatricality and irony in writing plays that are both politically charged and commercially viable. The book also features three essays written by scholars of Asian American theatre and a comprehensive list of primary and secondary sources on his oeuvre. This comprehensive study of Hwang's work follows his career both chronologically and thematically. The first chapter analyzes Hwang's early plays, "Trilogy of Chinese America," in which he explores issues of identity and cultural assimilation particular to Chinese Americans. Chapter two looks at four plays characterised as "Beyond Chinese America," which examines Hwang's less known plays. Chapter three focuses on M. Butterfly, which received the Tony Award for Best Play in 1988. In chapter four, Lee explores Hwang's development as a playwright during the decade of the 1990s with a focus on identity politics and multiculturalism. Chapter five examines Hwang's playwriting style in depth with a discussion of Hwang's more recent plays such as Yellow Face and Chinglish. The sixth chapter features three essays written by leading scholars in Asian American theatre: Josephine Lee on Flower Drum Song, Dan Bacalzo on Golden Child, and Daphne Lei on Chinglish. The final section provides a comprehensive compilation of sources: a chronology, a bibliography of Hwang's works, reviews and critical sources.

Yellow Face (TCG Edition)

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Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 1559366710
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book Yellow Face (TCG Edition) written by David Henry Hwang and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A thesis of a play, unafraid of complexities and contradictions, pepped up with a light dramatic fizz. It asks whether race is skin-deep, actable or even fakeable, and it does so with huge wit and brio.” -TimeOut London “A pungent play of ideas with a big heart. Yellow Face brings to the national discussion about race a sense of humor a mile wide, an even-handed treatment and a hopeful, healing vision of a world that could be” –Variety “It’s about our country, about public image, about face,” says David Henry Hwang about his latest work, a mock documentary that puts Hwang himself center stage. An exploration of Asian identity and the ever-changing definition of what it is to be an American, Yellow Face “is by turns acidly funny, insightful and provocative” (Washington Post). The play begins with the 1990s controversy over color-blind casting for Miss Saigon before it spins into a comic fantasy, in which the character DHH pens a play in protest and then unwittingly casts a white actor as the Asian lead. Yellow Face also explores the real-life investigation of Hwang’s father, the first Asian American to own a federally chartered bank, and the espionage charges against physicist Wen Ho Lee. Adroitly combining the light touch of comedy with weighty political and emotional issues, Hwang creates a "lively and provocative cultural self-portrait [that] lets nobody off the hook” (The New York Times).

M. Butterfly

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101077034
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book M. Butterfly written by David Henry Hwang and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1993-10-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Henry Hwang’s beautiful, heartrending play featuring an afterword by the author – winner of a 1988 Tony Award for Best Play and nominated for the 1989 Pulitzer Prize Based on a true story that stunned the world, M. Butterfly opens in the cramped prison cell where diplomat Rene Gallimard is being held captive by the French government—and by his own illusions. In the darkness of his cell he recalls a time when desire seemed to give him wings. A time when Song Liling, the beautiful Chinese diva, touched him with a love as vivid, as seductive—and as elusive—as a butterfly. How could he have known, then, that his ideal woman was, in fact, a spy for the Chinese government—and a man disguised as a woman? In a series of flashbacks, the diplomat relives the twenty-year affair from the temptation to the seduction, from its consummation to the scandal that ultimately consumed them both. But in the end, there remains only one truth: Whether or not Gallimard's passion was a flight of fancy, it sparked the most vigorous emotions of his life. Only in real life could love become so unreal. And only in such a dramatic tour de force do we learn how a fantasy can become a man's mistress—as well as his jailer. M. Butterfly is one of the most compelling, explosive, and slyly humorous dramas ever to light the Broadway stage, a work of unrivaled brilliance, illuminating the conflict between men and women, the differences between East and West, racial stereotypes—and the shadows we cast around our most cherished illusions. M. Butterfly remains one of the most influential romantic plays of contemporary literature, and in 1993 was made into a film by David Cronenberg starring Jeremy Irons and John Lone.

Chinglish

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Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822225959
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (259 download)

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Download or read book Chinglish written by David Henry Hwang and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2012 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: CHINGLISH is a hilarious comedy about the challenges of doing business in a country whose language--and underlying cultural assumptions--can be worlds apart from those of the West. The play tells the adventures of Daniel, an American busin

Golden Child

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Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822216827
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Golden Child written by David Henry Hwang and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: In the winter of 1918, progressive Chinese landowner Eng Tieng-Bin's interest in Westernization and Christianity sets off a power struggle among his three wives, which will determine the future of his daughter, Ahn, Tieng-Bin's favorite,

Understanding David Henry Hwang

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Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611172888
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Book Synopsis Understanding David Henry Hwang by : William C. Boles

Download or read book Understanding David Henry Hwang written by William C. Boles and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Henry Hwang is best known as the author of M. Butterfly, which won a 1988 Tony Award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and he has written the Obie Award-winners Golden Child and FOB, as well as Family Devotions, Sound and Beauty, Rich Relations, and a revised version of Flower Drum Song. His Yellow Face won a 2008 Obie Award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. Understanding David Henry Hwang is a critical study of Hwang's playwriting process as well as the role of identity in each one of Hwang's major theatrical works. A first-generation Asian American, Hwang intrinsically understands the complications surrounding the competing attractiveness of an American identity with its freedoms in contrast to the importance of a cultural and ethnic identity connected to another country's culture. William C. Boles examines Hwang's plays by exploring the perplexing struggles surrounding Asian and Asian American stereotypes, values, and identity. Boles argues that Hwang deliberately uses stereotypes in order to subvert them, while at other times he embraces the dual complexity of ethnicity when it is tied to national identity and ethnic history. In addition to the individual questions of identity as they pertain to ethnicity, Boles discusses how Hwang's plays explore identity issues of gender, religion, profession, and sexuality. The volume concludes with a treatment of Chinglish, both in the context of rising Chinese economic prominence and in the context of Hwang's previous work. Hwang has written ten short plays including The Dance and the Railroad, five screenplays, and many librettos for musical theater. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, Hwang was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.

The Dance and the Railroad ; And, Family Devotions

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Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822202653
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Dance and the Railroad ; And, Family Devotions written by David Henry Hwang and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1983 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORIES: THE DANCE AND THE RAILROAD. While his fellow workers are striking for higher pay, Lone, once an actor in China, exercises and practices alone on a mountaintop the ritual gestures used in Chinese opera. Ma, a slightly younger man, who w

A History of Asian American Theatre

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521850517
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of Asian American Theatre by : Esther Kim Lee

Download or read book A History of Asian American Theatre written by Esther Kim Lee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-12 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys the history of Asian American theatre from 1965 to 2005.

Asian American Drama

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Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557833143
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book Asian American Drama written by Brian Nelson and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1997 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). Includes: Amy Hill: Tokyo Bound ; David Henry Hwang: Bondage ; Velina Hasu Houston: As Sometimes in a Dead Man's Face ; Lane Nishikawa and Victor Talmadge: The Gate of Heaven ; Dwight Okita: The Rainy Season .

Kung Fu

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Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 9781636700014
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kung Fu written by David Henry Hwang and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhilarating biographical play about international icon Bruce Lee from three-time Pulitzer finalist David Henry Hwang. Following Bruce Lee's journey from troubled Hong Kong youth to martial arts legend, Kung Fu paints a portrait of Lee as he struggles to prove himself as a fighter, a husband, a father, and a man. David Henry Hwang's play fluidly blends dance, Chinese opera, martial arts, and drama into a bold new theatrical form.

The Sound of a Voice

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Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822210603
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Sound of a Voice written by David Henry Hwang and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1984 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The scene is an isolated house in the woods where a beautiful young woman lives alone. When a young samurai appears she offers him food and shelter, and when he decides to stay on they eventually become lovers. But while fascinated by his benefactress, the samurai cannot shake a superstitious mistrust of her; for all her delicacy and beauty she is also able to perform wonders of cookery, horticulture and even the martial arts (much to his wounded pride). In the end it develops that the woman is suspected of being a witch and the samurai has come to seek glory by killing her. This he ultimately cannot, or will not, do, but neither can be accept her superiority, and so he leaves-a fateful decision which, as it turns out, is made at terrible cost to both of them.

The Theatre of David Henry Hwang

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408185571
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of David Henry Hwang written by Esther Kim Lee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the premiere of his play FOB in 1979, the Chinese American playwright David Henry Hwang has made a significant impact in the U. S. and beyond. The Theatre of David Henry Hwang provides an in-depth study of his plays and other works in theatre. Beginning with his "Trilogy of Chinese America", Esther Kim Lee traces all major phases of his playwriting career. Utilizing historical and dramaturgical analysis, she argues that Hwang has developed a unique style of meta-theatricality and irony in writing plays that are both politically charged and commercially viable. The book also features three essays written by scholars of Asian American theatre and a comprehensive list of primary and secondary sources on his oeuvre. This comprehensive study of Hwang's work follows his career both chronologically and thematically. The first chapter analyzes Hwang's early plays, "Trilogy of Chinese America," in which he explores issues of identity and cultural assimilation particular to Chinese Americans. Chapter two looks at four plays characterised as "Beyond Chinese America," which examines Hwang's less known plays. Chapter three focuses on M. Butterfly, which received the Tony Award for Best Play in 1988. In chapter four, Lee explores Hwang's development as a playwright during the decade of the 1990s with a focus on identity politics and multiculturalism. Chapter five examines Hwang's playwriting style in depth with a discussion of Hwang's more recent plays such as Yellow Face and Chinglish. The sixth chapter features three essays written by leading scholars in Asian American theatre: Josephine Lee on Flower Drum Song, Dan Bacalzo on Golden Child, and Daphne Lei on Chinglish. The final section provides a comprehensive compilation of sources: a chronology, a bibliography of Hwang's works, reviews and critical sources.

Thom Pain (based on nothing) [TCG Edition]

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Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 1559367644
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book Thom Pain (based on nothing) [TCG Edition] written by Will Eno and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Astonishing in its impact. . . One of the treasured nights in the theatre that can leave you both breathless with exhilaration and, depending on your sensitivity to meditations on the bleak and beautiful mysteries of human experience, in a puddle of tears . . . Thom Pain is at bottom a surreal meditation on the empty promises life makes, the way experience never lives up to the weird and awesome fact of being. But it is also, in its odd, bewitching beauty, an affirmation of life’s worth."--Charles Isherwood, The New York Times “Eno has emerged as one of the most original young playwrights on the scene. He is one of the few writers who can convert discomfort and outright agony into such pleasure."--David Cote, TimeOut New York "Will Eno is one of the finest younger playwrights I've come across in a number of years. His work is inventive, disciplined and, at the same time, wild and evocative."--Edward Albee When Will Eno's one-person play Thom Pain opened in New York in February 2005, it became something rare--an unqualified hit, which soon extended through July. Before that, the play was a critical success in London and received the coveted Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival. Dubbed "stand-up existentialism" by The New York Times, it is lyrical and deadpan, both sardonic and sincere. It is Thom Pain--in the camouflage of the common man--fumbling with his heart, squinting into the light. Will Eno lives in Brooklyn, New York. His plays include The Flu Season, Tragedy: a tragedy, King: a problem play, and Intermission. His plays have been produced in London by the Gate Theatre and BBC Radio, and in the United States by Rude Mechanicals and Naked Angels. His play The Flu Season recently won the Oppenheimer Award, presented by NY Newsday for the previous year's best debut production in New York by an American playwright.

The Flower Drum Song

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110166486X
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Flower Drum Song written by C. Y. Lee and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-08-27 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1957, The Flower Drum Song was a groundbreaking work of popular literature. An immediate bestseller, it inspired the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. This charming, bittersweet tale of romance and the powerful bonds of family tells the story of Wang Ta, who wants what every young American man wants: a great career and a woman to love. Living in San Francisco's Chinatown-with his widowed father, Old Master Wang, who misses the old way of life in China, and his younger brother, who just wants to be a normal American teenager-Wang Ta becomes involved with a series of women as he searches for love and the American dream. Comic, poignant, and sexy, The Flower Drum Song is an astute portrayal of immigrants struggling with assimilation. This edition features a new introduction by David Henry Hwang.

FOB ; And, The House of Sleeping Beauties

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Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822204138
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book FOB ; And, The House of Sleeping Beauties written by David Henry Hwang and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1983 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORIES: FOB is told in a style that moves quickly between myth and reality, with the characters occasionally speaking directly to the audience. Grace and Dale are cousins, living in the Los Angeles area and attending college. Dale is fully Ame

Suicide Forest

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ISBN 13 : 9780997866476
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (664 download)

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Download or read book Suicide Forest written by Kristine Haruna Lee and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written to be performed by a Japanese heritage cast, Suicide Forest is a bilingual play that breaks through the silence and submissiveness often associated with Japanese and Japanese American identity, exploring questions of emotional, psychic and social suicide through the playwright's lived stories and inner landscape.

The Flower Drum Song

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Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Flower Drum Song written by C. Y. Lee and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2002-08-27 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1957, one of the first novels of the Chinese-American experience is now back in print to tie in with the Broadway revival.