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Jar of Fat
Seayoung Yim; Foreword by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig, Jacqueline Goldfinger, Virginia Grise, Rachel Lynett, …
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R665
Discovery Miles 6 650
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An absurdist comedy and fifteenth winner of the Yale Drama Prize,
exploring family, religion, identity, desire, and beauty in Korean
American culture  In a fantastical fairy-tale world, two
Korean American sisters are deemed too fat to fit in their family
grave. Will the sisters’ close bond survive under the pressure of
their community and fretful parents, who will spare no effort to
make them tinier? Â Jar of Fat, the fifteenth winner of the
Yale Drama Prize, is a phantasmagorical, absurdist Korean American
tale about the allure and danger entangled within the quest for
beauty and thinness. Both laugh-out-loud funny and deeply
troubling, Seayoung Yim’s play burns through the accumulated rage
that anti-fat bias produces to reclaim what it steals from us every
day: grace, space, possibility, and breath.
The fourteenth winner of the Yale Drama Series prize explores
"Blackness" and the reasons why joy and peace might be harder to
get than we think What does it mean to be safe when you're a person
of color in the United States? If you were given the chance to
leave and create a utopia, would you? Is utopia possible with all
of our subconscious bias? Rachel Lynett's highly satirical and
funny play is set in the fictional world following a second Civil
War. Bronx Bay, an all-Black state (and neighborhood), is
established in order to protect "Blackness." When Jules's new
partner, Yael, moves into town, community members argue over
whether Yael, who is Dominican, can stay. Questions of safety and
protection surround both Jules and Yael as the utopia of Bronx Bay
confronts within itself where the line is when it comes to defining
who is Black and who gets left out in the process. The play is the
fourteenth winner of the Yale Drama Series prize and the first one
chosen by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel.
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