Straight White Men/Untitled Feminist Show: Two Plays

Young Jean Lee

Straight White Men/Untitled Feminist Show: Two Plays
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.
Country
United States
Published
16 June 2020
Pages
168
ISBN
9781559365031

Straight White Men/Untitled Feminist Show: Two Plays

Young Jean Lee

Ms. Lee’s fascinating play … goes far beyond cheap satire, ultimately becoming a compassionate and stimulating exploration of one man’s existential crisis … She proves unexpectedly adept at strict naturalism … [A] mournful and inquisitive play. -New York Times

She sacrifices nothing; bodies, voices, jokes, food, tragedy, cities are all artistic fodder, as are her various selves and the mirthful, bloody life of her imagination. -New Yorker

Provocative playwright Young Jean Lee lends her shrewd perspective to this atypical take on the family drama. A father and his three sons unite and unravel, both aware of and undone by privilege and its pressure. When inherent social expectation conflicts with a desire to remain stagnant, the resulting identity confusion is new territory for the tightknit family. Strikingly observant and curiously drawn, Lee departs from her experimental style to create a naturalistic observation of the most socially unobstructed of our species, the straight white male.

Young Jean Lee has been hailed as one of the best experimental playwrights in America by Time Out New York. She has written and directed nine shows in New York with Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company and toured her work to over twenty cities around the world. Her other plays include We’re Gonna Die, Untitled Feminist Show, The Shipment, Lear and Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven. Awards include two Obies, the Festival Prize of the Zuercher Theater Spektakel, a Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Doris Duke Artist Award.

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