Theatre Communications Group, 2000

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Roles: Total (2), Female (1), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Bondage, a one-act play set in an S&M parlor in Los Angeles, explores the relationship between Terri, the dominatrix, and Mark, her submissive. The two are dressed from head-to-toe in leather, so the audience cannot see...

Theatre Communications Group, 2012

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 13, Roles: Total (9), Female (4), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Daniel, an American, wants to open up China for his business. There are only three things standing in his way: he can't speak the language, he can't learn the customs, and he's falling in love with the one woman he can't have...

Theatre Communications Group, 2000

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (9), Female (5), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Family Devotions, set in contemporary Los Angeles, is a farce that explores the notions of cultural authenticity. Ama and Popo are two devoutly Christian sisters living in luxury in contemporary L.A. They eagerly await the visit...

Theatre Communications Group, 2000

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 3, Roles: Total (3), Female (1), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...F.O.B. (fresh off the boat) is another of David Henry Hwang's explorations of what it is like to be Chinese in America. Dale is second-generation Chinese and very Americanized. He introduces the notion of F.O.B. to the audience...

Theatre Communications Group, 1998

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (2), Female (1), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Drawing on the life of his maternal Chinese grandmother, David Henry Hwang invokes the age in which his great grandfather broke with Confucian tradition by converting to Christianity and unbinding his daughter's feet. Golden Child explores...

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...John Lithgow and B. D. Wong recreate their original roles from the Tony Award-winning production of M. Butterfly. Inspired by an actual espionage scandal, a French diplomat discovers the startling truth about his Chinese mistress. An L...

Theatre Communications Group, 2000

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Scenes: 5, Roles: Total (2), Female (0), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Set in 1867 in California, The Dance and the Railroad tells the story of two Chinese laborers and marks a historical episode in American history. The play consists of a series of encounters between the two men as they wait out a strike. Ma...

Theatre Communications Group, 2000

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Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (2), Female (1), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...The play is David Henry Hwang's adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata's novel, House of the Sleeping Beauties. The playwright imagines how the novelist might have been inspired to write his book. In the play, Kawabata wants to visit...

Theatre Communications Group, 2000

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Scenes: 9, Roles: Total (2), Female (1), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...The Sound of a Voice is a fable about a samurai who shows up at the house of a woman who lives deep in the woods. She asks him in for tea, and he ends up staying for weeks. The play is very minimalist. some scenes consist of the two actors...

Theatre Communications Group, 2000

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (6), Female (1), Male (4), Unassigned (1)

...The Voyage, the libretto for the Philip Glass opera, which re-examines American history...

Theatre Communications Group, 2000

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Roles: Total (2), Female (0), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...The one-act play Trying to Find Chinatown describes an encounter between Benjamin, an ethnic Caucasian who considers himself Asian, and Ronnie, an ethnic Asian who knows little about his Asian heritage. Benjamin, adopted...

Theatre Communications Group, 2009

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (2), Female (0), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face is a mock documentary that puts Hwang himself centre-stage as he uses the controversy over colour-blind casting for Miss Saigon and the racially motivated federal investigation of his own father to explore...