Word: centralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sanchez learned to play in Central America, as an eight-year-old growing up in Guatemala City. His father, Felipe, cut a five-iron to length for him. Felipe bought his son a set of "really short woods" a year later...
Five years later, their sister, Nancy Sophia, learned to play. Their mother, nancy Castillo de Sanchez, also learned to play as golf slowly became a central part of Sanchez's youth...
...Nguyen '91) seeks only love and a home with a blue-tiled bathroom, while hard, flamboyant Little Jade (Kim Liang Tan) has "cherry blossom dreams" of finding a sugar daddy to take him to Japan, where he wants to track down the father he's never met. And the central character, Li Quing (Eddie Borey '00)--"Hawk"--is simply drifting, kicked out by his father and without a stable family outside of the park...
This work is very much a study in character and memory, as opposed to an action-based piece, and as such tends to feel highly literary. Its central metaphor has to do with birds and nests: the young hustlers, little birds buffeted by the winds of a world that scorns and rejects them, must always eventually come flying back to their place of acceptance--New Park, or the "Cozy Nest" that cradles them...
...strong character foil for Tan's marvelously cocky portrayal of Little Jade (whose self-assured manner and sexual self-confidence provides many of the play's laughs). But Borey, as a perpetually quiet and responsive Hawk, might add more to the play by being a more participatory and active central character. He's usually hard to read, and his portrayal of an innocent reacting to the world around him is made more difficult to perceive through his evident detachment. Yee, as Papa Fu, seems similarly self-involved, weakening the important second act by delivering his long speeches in a tone...