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The Theatre of David Henry Hwang

Author : Esther Kim Lee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408185016
Total Pages : 224 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 224 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)

Author : David Henry Hwang
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 1559366710
Total Pages : 112 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 112 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). David Henry Hwang is the author of the Tony Award-winning M. Butterfly, Yellow Face (OBIE Award, 2008 Pulitzer Prize finalist), Golden Child (1997 OBIE Award), FOB (1981 OBIE Award), Family Devotions (Drama Desk nomination), and the books for musicals Aida ( co-author), Flower Drum Song (2002 Broadway revival), and Tarzan, among other works. David Henry Hwang graduated from Stanford University, attended the Yale School of Drama, and holds honorary degrees from Columbia College in Chicago and The American Conservatory Theatre. He lives in New York City with his wife, actress Kathryn Layng, and their children, Noah David and Eva Veanne.

M. Butterfly

Author : David Henry Hwang
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101077034
Total Pages : 112 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 112 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.

The Theatre of David Henry Hwang

Author : Esther Kim Lee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408185571
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Chinglish

Author : David Henry Hwang
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

Author : David Henry Hwang
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

Author : William C. Boles
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611172888
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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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 160 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.

FOB ; And, The House of Sleeping Beauties

Author : David Henry Hwang
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

FOB and Other Plays

Author : David Henry Hwang
Publisher : Plume
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book FOB and Other Plays written by David Henry Hwang and published by Plume. This book was released on 1990 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of seven plays by David Henry Hwang bears eloquent witness to the scope and richness of Chinese-American literature. Capturing the spirit, the struggles and the secret language of the Chinese-American, Hwang magnificently blends the delicate nuances of fantasy, poetry and mythology in works of almost hallucinatory power...Jacket.

Trying to Find Chinatown

Author : David Henry Hwang
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 1559366699
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book Trying to Find Chinatown written by David Henry Hwang and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 1999-12-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major collection by the preeminent Asian-American playwright.

A History of Asian American Theatre

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

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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.

The Dance and the Railroad ; And, Family Devotions

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

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Book Synopsis The Dance and the Railroad ; And, Family Devotions by : David Henry Hwang

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

The Play that Changed My Life

Author : Benjamin A. Hodges
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557837400
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book The Play that Changed My Life written by Benjamin A. Hodges and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2009 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). What was the play that changed your life? What was the play that inspired you; that showed you something entirely new; that was so thrilling or surprising, breathtaking or poignant, that you were never the same? Nineteen of today's most gifted playwrights respond in this most revealing and personal book, published by Applause Books and presented by the American Theatre Wing, founder of The Tony Awards. From Edward Albee's 1935 visit to New York's Hippodrome Theatre to see Jimmy Durante (and an elephant) in Rodgers and Hart's Jumbo, to Diana Son's twelfth-grade field trip in 1983 to see Diane Venora play Hamlet at The Public Theater, from David Henry Hwang's seminal San Francisco encounter with Equus to a young Beth Henley's epiphany after seeing her mother in a "Green Bean Man costume," The Play That Changed My Life offers readers a unique peek into the theatrical influences of some of the nation's most important dramatists. The book is filled with tributes, memories, anecdotes and other insights that connect past to present and make this volume an instant "must have" for anyone who adores the theatre. Also in the book are pieces by David Auburn, Jon Robin Baitz, Nilo Cruz, Christopher Durang, Charles Fuller, A. R. Gurney, Tina Howe, David Ives, Donald Margulies, Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks, Sarah Ruhl, John Patrick Shanley, Regina Taylor, and Doug Wright, as well as an introduction by Paula Vogel. All together, the playwrights featured here have won more than 40 Tony Awards, Pulitzer Prizes, Obies, and MacArthur genius grants.

1000 Airplanes on the Roof

Author : Philip Glass
Publisher : Gibbs Smith Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book 1000 Airplanes on the Roof written by Philip Glass and published by Gibbs Smith Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kung Fu

Author : David Henry Hwang
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

Author : David Henry Hwang
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.

Suicide Forest

Author : Kristine Haruna Lee
Publisher :
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.