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Two compassionately subversive plays about identity, by Young Jean
Lee, a Korean American playwright whose work is groundbreaking,
humorous and often thrillingly transgressive. In Straight White
Men, it's Christmas Eve, and Ed has gathered his three adult sons
to celebrate with matching pyjamas, trash-talking, and Chinese
takeaway. But when a question they can't answer interrupts their
seasonal cheer, they are forced to confront their own identities.
Raucous, surprising and fearless, Straight White Men takes an
outside look at the traditional father/son narrative, shedding new
light on a story we think we know all too well. It had its UK
premiere at Southwark Playhouse, London, in 2021, following US
productions including a Broadway run that made Lee the first
Asian-American woman to have a play produced on Broadway. In
Untitled Feminist Show, six charismatic stars of the theatre,
dance, cabaret and burlesque worlds come together in an
exhilaratingly irreverent, nearly wordless celebration of a fluid
and limitless sense of identity. Untitled Feminist Show isn't a
show about feminism - it is a feminist show. It premiered at the
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, in 2012 before transferring to the
Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York City. 'Young Jean Lee is, hands
down, the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation'
New York Times
Readers today are still fascinated by “Nat,” an eighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard. Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailor’s world—Salem in the early days, when tall-masted ships from foreign ports crowded the wharves. But Nat didn’t promise to have the makings of a sailor; he was too physically small. Nat may have been slight of build, but no one guessed that he had the persistence and determination to master sea navigation in the days when men sailed only by “log, lead, and lookout.” Nat’s long hours of study and observation, collected in his famous work, The American Practical Navigator (also known as the “Sailors’ Bible”), stunned the sailing community and made him a New England hero.
Chinese Women Business Leaders - Seven Principles of Leadership
includes seven women who represent the characteristics of ShEOs in
the wave of Chinese economic reform. Their unique life stories are
also reflections of changes in Chinese society. These women have
each played a distinctive role In China's rapid emergence. Reform
and opening up has brought more opportunities than ever before to
Chinese women, though along with these opportunities come some
questions and challenges. The fetters and shackles of tradition
have been shattered. A path for self-actualization has opened up.
Women in mainland China have experienced great changes, and
struggled with conflicts between traditional heritage and modern
values. Ever since reform and opening up in 1978, the rapid
emergence of women in leadership roles in business has paralleled
significant upheavals in the Chinese business landscape.
"Bold, unguarded work . . . that resists pat definition. [Young
Jean] Lee has penned profane lampoons of motivational bromides
("Pullman, WA") and the Romantic poets ("The Appeal"). Now she
piles her deconstructive scorn upon ethnic stereotypes in "Songs of
the Dragons Flying to Heaven," a sweet-and-sour parade of Asian
minstrelsy."-"Time Out New York"
"A perverse, provocative, and very funny festival of racism . .
. "Songs" offers not only chauvinistic monologues and ass-slapping
Korean dances, but also a rigorous exploration of art-making and
its associated terrors."-"The Village Voice"
"Have you ever noticed how most Asian Americans are slightly
brain-damaged from having grown up with Asian parents?" begins the
Korean American protagonist of "Songs of the Dragons Flying to
Heaven," the singular work of Young Jean Lee, whose plays are like
nothing you have ever seen or read. This is the first collection by
the downtown writer-director, whose explorations of stereotypes of
race, gender, and religion are unflinching-and seat-squirming
funny. Also includes "Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals"; "The
Appeal"; "Pullman, WA"; "Church"; and "Yaggoo."
Young Jean Lee was born in Korea and moved to the United States
at age two. She grew up in Pullman, Washington, and attended
college at the University of California, Berkeley, where she also
studied Shakespeare in the English PhD program before moving to New
York. She is the founder of the Young Jean Lee's Theater Company,
where she directs her own work, and has toured internationally in
Vienna, Hanover, Berlin, Switzerland, Brussels, Norway, France, and
Rotterdam; and across the United States in Portland, Seattle,
Pittsburgh, and Minneapolis. She is the recipient of a 2007
Emerging Playwright OBIE Award.
At a time when most serious drama being written and produced for
the American stage aspires only to mainstream acceptance and
high-toned mediocrity, an innovative new generation of playwrights
based in New York City has emerged, crafting works that challenge
and undermine the conventional structure, language, and
characterization of commercial theater while rejecting outdated
notions of the avant-garde. New Downtown Now brings together ten
new works that exemplify the playfulness, excitement, and
possibilities of the theater. Characterized by fragmenting
structure, hypnotic rhythms, kaleido-scopic imagery, unpredictable
characters, and lyrical language, these plays resemble puzzles from
which the writers are teasing revelations. Though disparate in
subject matter and style, with characters ranging from a sushi chef
to a soldier and settings from a taxicab to a live television
broadcast, these highly original plays share a commitment to formal
experimentation that places them beyond the psychological cliches
of the majority and the cold condescension of postmodernism. The
anthology includes Interim by Barbara Cassidy; Tragedy: a tragedy
by Will Eno; Nine Come by Elana Greenfield; Shufu-Sachiko and
Enoshima Island by Madelyn Kent; The Appeal by Young Jean Lee; The
Vomit Talk of Ghosts by Kevin Oakes; Ajax (por nobody) by Alice
Tuan; Apparition, an uneasy play of the underknown by Anne
Washburn; Demon Baby by Erin Courtney. Mac Wellman is the author of
numerous plays and the recipient of three Obie awards, most
recently in 2003 for lifetime achievement. He is professor of
playwriting at Brooklyn College. Young Jean Lee is a playwright and
director, and member of the Obie award-winning company 13P. Jeffrey
M. Jones is a playwright and curator of the Obie award-winning
Little Theater at Tonic in New York.
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