Word: hwang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recognized as one voice, but there are tremendous disparities within the group itself," said AAA Co-President Haewon Hwang...
...other times, Hwang forgets the cardinal rule and lets his characters tell rather than show; Randall spells out, "This change in appearance has somehow changed the inner man." In impeding the otherwise rich evolution of plot and character with soapbox monologues, Face Value underestimates its audience. Hopefully, much of the speechifying will be cut as Face Value continues its pre-Broadway engagement at the Colonial Theatre, so that nothing detracts from the attention the plot and characters deserve...
...play begins on the opening night of a controversial Broadway musical entitled The Real Manchu, in which a white actor in yellow face plays the lead instead of an Asian. If this sounds familiar, that's because Hwang has found a forum to wreak delicious vengeance on Miss Saigon. The offensive and not very creative British extravaganza is only the point of departure for Face Value, however, which goes backstage at The Real Manchu to explore the interactions between self-absorbed actor, self-absorbed producer, wise-cracking stage manager, disguised Asian protesters and undercover white supremacist terrorists. The cast...
Recently The Crimson spoke with David Henry Hwang, Face Value, is in Boston for its pre-Broad-way Hwang, M. Butterfly, a critical and popular success the Tony Award for Best Play...
...people left there was too much going on in M. Butterfly I remember someone saying Hwang never takes on one subject when he can take on six. Essentially, I think this play deals with fewer issues than Butterfly. Butterfly attempts to compose a theory of the other which takes into account racism, sexism, imperialism--and tries to create a system in which all these factors work together. This play is basically about race, about whether race is real or mythological, whether it's a construct that has any usefulness...