An Asian-American playwright and activist gets tangled in a complicated and humorous web of lies as he struggles to win back his integrity.
BY DAVID HENRY HWANG
DIRECTED BY TED HEWLETT
Truth and fiction blur in David Henry Hwang’s satiric memoir about DHH, a playwright plunged into a whirlpool of missteps and unintentional hypocrisy after a vocal protest against the casting of Jonathan Pryce as a Eurasian hustler in the Broadway production of Miss Saigon. What he condemns as “yellowface” soon comes back to haunt him when he later misidentifies a Caucasian actor for mixed-race and casts him in his own Broadway-bound comedy. His personal integrity is compromised as he proceeds to conceal his blunder aiding the narrative of this “born-again Asian.”. Ultimately a forceful argument for representation, this provocative and comical sideways glance at race and assimilation asks “who has the ownership of a culture?”
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Post show discussions on June 2 and June 16.
2024/05/31 - 2024/06/23
Lyric Stage Company
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