Word: chickencoop
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Dates: during 1987-1987
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...CHINAMEN are made, not born, my dear," exclaims Tam Lum, the protagonist of Frank Chin's The Chickencoop Chinaman. Chin's drama, Harvard's first Asian American theatrical production, explores this angry youth's problemmatic quest for cultural identity...
...mainstream America Tam attempts to become a cultural hero, leading disciples such as Kenji along the path to a new and rebellious racial identity. As Chin's drama unfolds, however, Tam's "Blackness" is exposed as a cowardly means of escape. He is nothing more than a pathetic "Chickencoop Chinaman," trapped by both America's prejudices and his own biases against his Asian roots...
Though uneven and occassionally incoherent, The Chickencoop Chinaman deserves praise as a bold and ambitious project. It may not be an outstanding dramatic production, but it is an intriguing cultural event...
Beyond the high-profile productions are a number of other shows worth following. Among these are such varied offerings as Gilgamesh, billed as the "world's oldest epic," Chickencoop Chinaman, described as the first Asian-American production at Harvard and Dreams in Amber, a "music/theater dreamplay." And like last year's Wuthering Heights, there will be another staging of an honors thesis project...
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