David Henry Hwang
Auteur de M. Butterfly
A propos de l'auteur
The son of immigrant Chinese parents, Hwang attended Stanford University and the Yale Drama School and has been a director and a teacher of playwriting. FOB (1981), which stands for "Fresh off the boat,"' explores the conflicts between two Chinese Americans and a Chinese exchange student still afficher plus steeped in the customs and beliefs of the old world. It won an Obie Award in 1981. The Dance and the Railroad (1982) concerns an artist and his fellow workers who stage a strike to protest the inhuman conditions suffered by Chinese railroad workers in the American West in the nineteenth century. M Butterfly (1988), about the relationship between an American man and a Chinese transvestite, won the Tony Award as best play of the year. Maxine Hong Kingston wrote, "David Hwang has an ear for Chinatown English, the language of childhood and the subconscious, the language of emotion, the language of home." (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de David Henry Hwang
Fob 2 exemplaires
The Dance and the Railroad/Family Devotions: Two Plays by David Henry Hwang (1983-12-26) 1 exemplaire
M. Butterfly (performance of Feb. 1988) 1 exemplaire
The Voyage 1 exemplaire
Soft Power 1 exemplaire
F.O.B. and Other Plays (Plume) 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1957-08-11
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Études
- Stanford University
Yale University (School of Drama)
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FANTASTIC. A cutting and innovative interrogation of "Orientalist" stereotypes, using a real-life story and the opera *Madame Butterfly.* I am pretty sure this is the play I will be teaching this fall.
Reviewed on my blog (see my profile)
A play reimagining Madame Butterfly. The author based it on a brief news article about a man who had a long term affair with someone he thought was a woman, but was in fact a man. So this telling of Butterfly has lots of specific references (music, etc) but has a gender twist that is unexpected.
Still not a fan of reading plays (read this one for the #ReadHarder challenge)....the stage/lighting directions seemed to give me a hard stop and interrupted the flow of the dialog in such a way that they story was choppy. From what I understand the actual performance of the play is quite amazing.… (plus d'informations)
A play reimagining Madame Butterfly. The author based it on a brief news article about a man who had a long term affair with someone he thought was a woman, but was in fact a man. So this telling of Butterfly has lots of specific references (music, etc) but has a gender twist that is unexpected.
Still not a fan of reading plays (read this one for the #ReadHarder challenge)....the stage/lighting directions seemed to give me a hard stop and interrupted the flow of the dialog in such a way that they story was choppy. From what I understand the actual performance of the play is quite amazing.… (plus d'informations)
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- Œuvres
- 24
- Aussi par
- 12
- Membres
- 1,600
- Popularité
- #16,112
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 24
- ISBN
- 42
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- 3
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- 2
Review of the Audible Studios audiobook (May 2, 2024) multicast adaptation of the original play (2007) and the playscript from Dramatists Play Service (February 13, 2009).
Playwright David Henry Hwang creates a fictionalized story about his unpublished play Face Value (1993) which closed on Broadway after only 8 preview performances without even an official opening. The fiction takes off from the real-life protests of Hwang and others to the casting of Caucasian actor Jonathan Pryce in the role of the half-Vietnamese bar owner "The Engineer" in the London and New York staging of the Miss Saigon (1989) musical.
Hwang then opens his own play "Face Value" but inadvertently casts a Caucasian named Marcus as his Asian lead (in reality BD Wong played the role) and then has to invent a supposed Asian background for the actor in order to not embarrass himself. The actor then goes on to play several prominent Asian roles in the theatre, culminating in the role of the King of Siam (Thailand) in The King and I.
Various farcical events pile on top of each other with Hwang's father being accused of laundering Communist Chinese money in his bank, the press eager to expose Marcus's deception and DHH (the playwright's proxy) scrambling to both save his father from prosecution and undo the false narrative he had created for Marcus.
The audiobook had a full cast of prominent film and TV actors and featured Daniel Dae Kim in the role of DHH and Jason Biggs in the role of Marcus. Several prominent figures and actors played themselves. Everyone did an excellent job in this comedy farce.
Footnote
* I am thinking of the recent novel Yellowface (2023) by R.F. Kuang.
Trivia and Link
There was a Direct to YouTube film adaptation of David Henry Huang's Yellow Face in 2 parts which premiered ten years ago in 2014 and which you can watch here (Part 1) and here (Part 2).… (plus d'informations)