This book contains plays by Genny Lim (Paper Angels, ) Wakako Yamauchi (The Music Lessons, ) Momoko Iko (Gold Watch, ) Velina Hasu Houston (Tea, ) Jeannie Barroga (Walls, ) and Elizabeth Wong (Letters to a Student Revolutionary.) The volume includes an extended introduction, a profile of each playwright, and an appendix. The six plays of this anthology represent some of the best dramatic literature written by Asian American women since the 1970s. Each is a groundbreaking work and addresses in its own way the experiences of Asians in America. All six playwrights are American-born daughters...
This book contains plays by Genny Lim (Paper Angels, ) Wakako Yamauchi (The Music Lessons, ) Momoko Iko (Gold Watch, ) Velina Hasu Houston (Tea, ) ...
In this pathbreaking volume, Velina Hasu Houston gathers together eleven plays that speak in the hybridized, unique American voices of Asian descent -- and often dissent. These writers resist the bigotry that attempts to target them solely as people of color as well as the homogenizing tendencies of a multiculturalism that fails to recognize the varied make-up of Asian America. Anthologized for the first time, these plays testify to the rich complexity of Asian American experience while they also demonstrate the different styles and thematic concerns of the individual playwrights. What...
In this pathbreaking volume, Velina Hasu Houston gathers together eleven plays that speak in the hybridized, unique American voices of Asian descent -...
Contains eleven plays that speak in the 'hybridized, unique American voices of Asian descent and often dissent.' This title features plays that testify to the rich complexity of Asian-American experience. It also demonstrates the different styles and thematic concerns of the individual playwrights.
Contains eleven plays that speak in the 'hybridized, unique American voices of Asian descent and often dissent.' This title features plays that testif...
Actors of colour need the best speeches to demonstrate their skills and hone their craft. Roberta Uno has carefully selected monologues that represent African-American, Native American, Latino, and Asian-American identities. Each monologue comes with an introduction and notes on the characters and stage directions to set the scene for the actor.
This new edition now includes more of the most exciting and accomplished playwrights to have emerged over the 15 years since the "Monologues for Actors of Color" books were first published, from new, cutting edge talent to Pulitzer winners.
Actors of colour need the best speeches to demonstrate their skills and hone their craft. Roberta Uno has carefully selected monologues that repres...
Actors of colour need the best speeches to demonstrate their skills and hone their craft. Roberta Uno has carefully selected monologues that represent African-American, Native American, Latino, and Asian-American identities. Each monologue comes with an introduction and notes on the characters and stage directions to set the scene for the actor.
This new edition now includes more of the most exciting and accomplished playwrights to have emerged over the 15 years since the "Monologues for Actors of Color" books were first published, from new, cutting edge talent to Pulitzer winners.
Actors of colour need the best speeches to demonstrate their skills and hone their craft. Roberta Uno has carefully selected monologues that repres...
Actors of colour need the best speeches to demonstrate their skills and hone their craft. Roberta Uno has carefully selected monologues that represent African-American, Native American, Latino, and Asian-American identities. Each monologue comes with an introduction and notes on the characters and stage directions to set the scene for the actor.
This new edition now includes more of the most exciting and accomplished playwrights to have emerged over the 15 years since the "Monologues for Actors of Color" books were first published, from new, cutting edge talent to Pulitzer winners.
Actors of colour need the best speeches to demonstrate their skills and hone their craft. Roberta Uno has carefully selected monologues that repres...
