Ching Chong Chinaman by Lauren Yee

Ching Chong Chinaman by Lauren Yee

Characters: 3 male, 3 female Comedy The Wongs are American as apple pie. Desdemona dreams of Princeton but could use some help with her calculus. Her brother Upton wants to be a World of Warcraft champion but needs more free time to train. Upton solves both their problems by bringing an indentured servant home one day, but they soon discover that "Ching Chong" has American dreams of his own! An irreverent new comedy by Lauren Yee is skewering every cliche about Asian American identity. The show won the 2007 Yale Playwrights Festival. "...a lively, likable show! Playwright Lauren Yee gleefully highlights the assimilated life of the Wongs, who defy the stereotype of the hard driving Chinese-American family. It's clever and her insights are astute!" -Ken Jaworowski, New York Times "...a wildly inventive, raucously funny ride. Though rooted in Asian American literary tradition, this play upends its conventions with inspired irreverence. You have not seen anything like this before. The fourth wave of Asian American playwriting has arrived!" -David Henry Hwang, New York Times "a smart, fast-paced comedy that wrings laughs from the topics of cultural identity and assimilation. Neither predictable nor politically correct, it's a satirical cartoon that has heart and even occasional poignancy" -Theatremania.com, Patrick Lee "Yee's characters have a substantial basis in camp...Ching Chong Chinaman shines in its countless bit parts and joking asides..." -Nicole Villeneuve, Backstage "Wildly funny...makes hilarious splash in melting pot" -Contra Costa Times "Whip-smart and very funny...Particularly clever is Yee's deft use of magical realism." -East Bay Express "Fast, furious and very funny...an exhilarating send-up" -Berkeley Daily Planet "Great laughs...unexpectedly moving" -Examiner.com

Lauren Yee, a playwright from San Francisco, was born and reared there. She is now based in New York City. Her piece Cambodian Rock Band, with music by Dengue Fever, had its world debut at South Coast Rep and is currently on tour with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, and Victory Gardens. Her play The Great Leap has been seen at the Denver Center, Seattle Repertory, Atlantic Theatre, and the Guthrie, with more performances planned at Arts Club and InterAct Theatre in the near future. Also coming up at Trinity Rep is The Song of Summer.

The Goodman Theatre and Center Theatre Group launched Yee's play King of the Yees, which was followed by productions at ACT Theatre, Canada's National Arts Centre, and Baltimore Center Stage. Ching Chong Chinaman (Mu Performing Arts), The Hatmaker's Wife (Playwrights Realm, Moxie, PlayPenn), Hookman (Encore, Company One), In a Word (SF Playhouse, Cleveland Public, Strawdog), Samsara (Victory Gardens, O'Neill Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival), and The Tiger Among Us (MAP Fund, Mu) are among the other pieces. She was a member of The Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group, a Time Warner Fellow at the Women's Initiative Playwrights Lab, the Shank playwright-in-residence at Second Stage Theatre, a Playwrights' Center Core Writer, and the Page One resident playwright at Playwrights Realm. The Horton Foote Award, the Kesselring Prize, and the Francesca Primus Prize have all been awarded to her.

She was a finalist for the Edward M. Kennedy Prize. The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the ATCA/Steinberg Award, the Jerome Fellowship, the PONY Fellowship, the Princess Grace Award, the Sundance Theatre Lab, and the Wasserstein Prize are among the awards given out by the Kennedy Center. Her play The Hatmaker's Wife was nominated for the John Gassner Prize for best play by a new American playwright by the Outer Critics Circle. Her plays ranked one and second on the 2017 Kilroys List.

Yee is a Ma-Yi Theatre Writers Lab member, a Hodder fellow at Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts for the 2018/2019 academic year, and a New Dramatists playwright (class of 2025). The Geffen Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, Lincoln Center Theatre/LCT3, Mixed Blood Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Second Stage Theatre, South Coast Rep, and Trinity Rep are currently commissioning her work. She has written for the Netflix series MIXTAPE.

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ISBN 13	9780573698545
ISBN 10	0573698546
Title	Ching Chong Chinaman
Author	Lauren Yee
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Samuel French, Inc.
Year published	2011-01-19
Number of pages	84
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