Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Other Plays by Young Jean Lee

Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Other Plays by Young Jean Lee

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 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:

Songs of the Dragon Flying to Heaven
Scathingly mischievous...Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven 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, Washington Post
Part performance art, part comic sketches, fights, dance, song and 'reverse Bible study, ' and at times strangely serious, Dragons is a bracingly funny...always provocative equal-opportunity offender. -Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Gate
Miss Lee has a talent for evocative and sometimes grotesque imagery, and on the attack she is at the height of her powers. -New York Times

Church
I will happily worship in the house of Young Jean Lee. -David Cote, TimeOut New York
A thoroughly entertaining, uplifting, inescapable piece of art...So thought provoking, it's only appropriate to give thanks and praise. -Helen Shaw, The New York Sun

Pullman, WA
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, New York Times

The Appeal
The Appeal is the happiest literary desecration since Amy Freed's The Bard of Avon, in which Shakespeare declared, 'I have great thought-like things within my head.' -Jeremy McCarter, The New York Sun

Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals
Lee is a queen of unease; chuckles never come unaccompanied by squirms. -Village Voice

Yaggoo
A rising star of the downtown theatre scene. -New York Times

Young Jean Lee 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. Her plays include Straight White Men, We're Gonna Die, Untitled Feminist Show, The Shipment, Lear and Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven. 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.

YOUNG JEAN LEE is an OBIE Award-winning writer and director who has been dubbed by the New York Times as the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation and one of the best experimental playwrights in America by Time Out New York. With Young Jean Lee's Theater Group in New York, she wrote and directed nine performances and toured her work to over twenty locations around the world. Theatre Communications Company (Songs of the Dragons Soaring to Heaven and Other Plays, The Shipment, and Lear) and Samuel French (Three Plays by Young Jean Lee) have released her pieces. Plan B/Paramount Films, Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival have all commissioned her. She is a member of New Dramatists and 13P, and holds an MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College's Mac Wellman program.

She has received funding from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Creative Capital, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, and the Rockefeller MAP Foundation. She has also won two OBIE prizes, the Festival Prize of the Zuercher Theater Spektakel, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' 2010 Prize in Literature, a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2012 Doris Duke Artist Award.

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ISBN 13	9781559363266
ISBN 10	1559363266
Title	Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Other Plays
Author	Young Jean Lee
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.
Year published	2009-06-18
Number of pages	216
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.