Word: hwang
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This hokey 1958 Broadway hit has justly languished in dinner theaters ever since. Now, in a radical revision at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, playwright David Henry Hwang treats the original like "some kind of weird Oriental minstrel show," as one character puts it, and wraps its assimilationist anthems into a merry multicultural trip from Tiananmen Square to San Francisco's Chinatown. Director-choreographer Robert Longbottom adds a dollop of kitsch--and somehow the mix is funny and clever. It even jerks a tear or two. Broadway, get ready...
...Hwang frequently rose from her seat, used emphatic hand gestures to emphasize certain points and occasionally raised her voice to the point of yelling...
...Hwang also exhorted the students in attendance to aid her cause...
...recent years, Hwang has undertaken a campaign to compel the Japanese government, via legal action, to admit wrongdoing. A video preceding last night’s speech detailed a class-action lawsuit filed against Japan in U.S. Federal Court by Hwang and 14 other survivors...
...After Hwang spoke, the coordinators of the event presented her with flowers, an umbrella, and a Harvard sweatshirt, all of which she accepted with a wide smile...