David Henry Hwang has the potential to become the first important
dramatist of American public life since Arthur Miller, and maybe
the best of them all. -"Detroit News"
David Henry Hwang has created an extraordinary body of work over
the last twenty years: the Tony Award-winning play, "M. Butterfly";
the OBIE Award-winning and 1998 Tony nominated "Golden Child"; the
libretti to "The Voyage" (included here) and "1000 Airplanes on the
Roof" (both for composer Philip Glass); and the book to "Aida,"
which he coauthored. He has received fellowships from the
Rockefeller and Guggenheim foundations, the National Endowment for
the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts and The Pew /TCG
National Artists Residency Program.
This eight-play collection includes:
"FOB" "fresh off the boat" explores the conflicts between old
and new worlds
"The Dance and the Railroad" a haunting play about the inhuman
conditions of railroad workers in the 1860s American West
"Family Devotions" a biting work which probes the religious
conflicts in a modern Chinese-American family
"The Sound of a Voice" a meditation on the traditional roles of man
and woman set in feudal Japan
"The House of Sleeping Beauties" a reworking of a novella by
Yasunari Kawabata
"The Voyage" the libretto to the opera by Philip Glass, which
examines Columbus's arrival in America
"Bondage" a one-act set in an S&M parlor, which examines racial
stereotypes and sexual myths
"Trying to Find Chinatown" a two-person play, in which two
Asian-American men-one searching for his Asian heritage, the other
trying to shake himself free-meet by chance in New York City
"David Henry Hwang knows America-its vernacular, its social
landscape, its theatrical traditions. He knows the same about
China. In his plays, he manages to mix both of these conflicting
cultures until he arrives at a style that is wholly his own.
Hwang's works have the verve of the well-made American stage
comedies and yet, with little warning, they bubble over into the
mystical rituals of Asian stagecraft. By at once bringing West and
East into conflict and unity, this playwright has found the
perfect
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