Yellow Face
Paperback, 90 pages ISBN: 9781559363402Publication Date:
1 Jul 2010
Size: 216mm x 136mm£17.99
First Staged:
Center Theatre Goup/Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, 2007

Yellow Face

By David Henry Hwang

Paperback £17.99

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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 Asian identity and the ever-changing definition of what it is to be an American.

Press Quotes

'Hwang's lively and provocative cultural self-portrait lets nobody off the hook'

New York Times

'A pungent play of ideas with a big heart. Yellow Face brings to the national discussion about race a sense of humor a mile wide, an even-handed treatment and a hopeful, healing vision of a world that could be'

Variety
Paperback,90 pages ISBN: 9781559363402Publication Date:
1 Jul 2010
Size: 216mm x 136mm£17.99

Also by David Henry Hwang:

Golden Child
Trying to Find Chinatown
Chinglish
Flower Drum Song

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