โ Hoffman, Murphy
๐ Fiction
๐
2019
๐ English
โ 135 KB
โฆ LIBER โฆ
The Shipment and Lear
โ Scribed by Lee, Young Jean
- Publisher
- Theatre Communications Group
- Year
- 2012;2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 83 KB
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1559363568
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
"A subversive, seriously funny new theater piece by the adventurous playwright Young Jean Lee. . . . Ms. Lee does not shy away from prodding the audience's racial sensitivities--or insensitivities--in a style that is sometimes sly and subtle, sometimes as blunt as a poke in the eye."--Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
"Lee is a facetious provocateur; she does whatever she can to get under our skins--with laughs and with raw, brutal talk . . . [and with] so ingenious a twist, such a radical bit of theatrical smoke and mirrors, that we are forced to confront our own preconceived notions of race."--Hilton Als, The New Yorker
With The Shipment , her latest work taking on identity politics, Young Jean Lee "confirms herself as one of the best experimental playwrights in America" (Time Out New York). The Korean American theater artist has taken on cultural images of black America, in a play that begins with sketches...
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