Straight White Men (TCG Edition) by Young Jean Lee
Young Jean Lee's Untitled Feminist Show is one of the more moving and imagina-tive works I have ever seen on the American stage.what makes it so transcendent is its delicious ability to alternate the pain of being different with a sense of humor about lives not lived among the status quo. --Hilton Als, New Yorker The twisty, turbulent, argumentative work of Young Jean Lee.will make you flinch, but it's hard to look away.Lee has always been interested in exposing how we perform our identities. But in Straight White Men, she drills into something more core. Shuck off, subvert, cleave to your gender or race all you like, but a universal horror of weakness remains--a collective orientation toward status, power, control. --Parul Sehgal, New York Times Who said the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak? Both are pretty damn fierce in director Young Jean Lee's all-nude dance suite cheekily (but purposefully) called Untitled Feminist Show. In a scant (and scantily clad) hour, Lee and her gutsy danc-ers try on a dizzying variety of modes and masks to shake up gender norms. --David Cote, Time Out New York Straight White Men might be the most subversive thing that Young Jean Lee, one of American theater's most keenly seditious practitioners, has ever done. --Alexis Soloski, Guardian Young Jean Lee is, hands down, the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation. --Charles Isherwood, New York Times Young Jean Lee, with Straight White Men, became the first Asian-American woman to have her play produced on Broadway. She has directed her work in more than thirty cities around the world, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two OBIE Awards, a Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a PEN Literary 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 | 9781559365031 |
| ISBN 10 | 155936503X |
| Title | Straight White Men (TCG Edition) |
| Author | Young Jean Lee |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. |
| Year published | 2020-07-30 |
| Number of pages | 168 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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