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Yellow face
- Title
- Yellow face / [by David Henry Hwang], 2007.
- Author
- Hwang, David Henry, 1957-
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Supervised use | NCOF+ 10-7958 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
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- Description
- 96 leaves; 28 cm.
- Summary
- Autobiographical work in which playwright Henry David Hwang examines the dilemma of Asian Americans in the performing arts. The play makes reference to his own earlier works M. Butterfly and Face value, and to the controversy surrounding the casting of Welsh actor Jonathan Pryce as a Eurasian character in the 1990 Broadway musical Miss Saigon.
- Typescript, dated Dec. 5, 2007. Lightly marked with ink. Used by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive on Dec. 13, 2007, when videotaping the stage production at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre, New York, N.Y. The production opened on Dec. 10, 2007, and was directed by Leigh Silverman.
- Alternative Title
- Yellowface
- Subject
- Hwang, David Henry, 1957- > Drama
- Pryce, Jonathan > Drama
- Schönberg, Claude-Michel. > Drama
- Actors > Drama
- Actresses > Drama
- Asians > Race identity > Drama
- Asian Americans > Race identity > Drama
- Asian American actors > Drama
- Authorship > Psychological aspects > Drama
- Dramatists > Drama
- Dramatists, American
- Race relations > Drama
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) > Drama
- Theater > Drama
- Theater > Casting > Drama
- Genre/Form
- Scripts.
- Call Number
- NCOF+ 10-7958
- OCLC
- 692797040
- Author
- Hwang, David Henry, 1957-
- Title
- Yellow face / [by David Henry Hwang], 2007.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater, producer.Eustis, Oskar, 1958- producer.Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles, producer.Silverman, Leigh, director.New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
- Research Call Number
- NCOF+ 10-7958