{"title":"Young Jean Lee","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"shipment-and-lear-two-plays-book-young-jean-lee-9781559363563","title":"The Shipment and Lear: two plays","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\"Lee's way of subverting expectations leaves us questioning our own latent assumptions and desires about theatre, race, death and entertainment. She understands and exploits the unique strengths of her medium: the ability to viscerally connect with an audience.\" -\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Experimental Korean American theatre artist Young Jean Lee has been called \"one of the best experimental playwrights in America\" (\u003ci\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/i\u003e). This volume contains two of her recent works:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Shipment\u003c\/i\u003e, Lee provides a provocative look at African-American identity in our not-yet post-racial society. 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Her plays include \u003ci\u003eStraight White Men\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWe're Gonna Die\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUntitled Feminist Show\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Shipment\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLear\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSongs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e. Awards include two Obies, the Festival Prize of the Zuercher Theater Spektakel, a Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Doris Duke Artist Award.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49533339533585,"sku":"GOR011502595","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49700719395089,"sku":"CIN1559363568G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50125407125777,"sku":"CIN1559363568VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51037367730449,"sku":"NIN9781559363563","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1559363568.jpg?v=1778839029"},{"product_id":"songs-of-the-dragons-flying-to-heaven-and-other-plays-book-young-jean-lee-9781559363266","title":"Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Other Plays","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eSongs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e, the singular work by Young Jean Lee. 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. This volume includes the following plays: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSongs of the Dragon Flying to Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScathingly mischievous...\u003ci\u003eSongs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocateur's funny, guns-blazing take on the utter banality of ethnic stereotypes and other cross-cultural outrages. In its slyly eccentric way, it's an evening of enlightenment. -Peter Marks, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart performance art, part comic sketches, fights, dance, song and 'reverse Bible study, ' and at times strangely serious, \u003ci\u003eDragons\u003c\/i\u003e is a bracingly funny...always provocative equal-opportunity offender. -Robert Hurwitt, \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Gate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMiss Lee has a talent for evocative and sometimes grotesque imagery, and on the attack she is at the height of her powers. -\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eChurch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI will happily worship in the house of Young Jean Lee. -David Cote, \u003ci\u003eTimeOut New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA thoroughly entertaining, uplifting, inescapable piece of art...So thought provoking, it's only appropriate to give thanks and praise. -Helen Shaw, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Sun\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePullman, WA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lee's] new work has the deadpan simplicity of the plays of Richard Maxwell and the awkward, secretly suffering angst of a teenage diarist working through an identity crisis.... It is an honest  work] that takes itself seriously, and that is refreshing. -Jason Zinoman, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Appeal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Appeal\u003c\/i\u003e is the happiest literary desecration since Amy Freed's \u003ci\u003eThe Bard of Avon\u003c\/i\u003e, in which Shakespeare declared, 'I have great thought-like things within my head.' -Jeremy McCarter, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Sun\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGroundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLee is a queen of unease; chuckles never come unaccompanied by squirms. -\u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eYaggoo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA rising star of the downtown theatre scene. -\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eYoung Jean Lee\u003c\/b\u003e has written and directed shows in New York with Young Jean Lee's Theater Company and toured her work to over twenty cities around the world. 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A goofily grim and oddly uplifting meditation by one of the most restlessly experimental--and wildly entertaining--writer-directors working in the theater today.\" - Adam Green, \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Young Jean Lee is, hands down, the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation . . . A combination of pop concert and autobiographical lament for the human condition, \u003ci\u003eWe're Gonna Die\u003c\/i\u003e's forthright acknowledgment that life can be a rough business is bracing, funny, and, yes, consoling.\" -Charles Isherwood, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Drawing from true stories of people's experiences with tragedy, despair, and loneliness, Young Jean Lee creates a life-affirming show about the one thing we all have in common: we're gonna die. 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