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Kingston has complained that critics, while generous, misread her work as being about China rather than America. Berkeley Rep artistic director Sharon Ott, the latest in a mob of adapters who have spent nearly two decades trying to find a dramatic idiom for Kingston's work, calls the central character "a troubled, gifted, 12-year-old American girl trapped in a petite Chinese body...
...Ott's version, created with writer Deborah Rogin, plays on the Berkeley campus until July 10, then opens the fall season at Boston's Huntington Theatre before being rethought for a new Los Angeles staging next spring. The spectacle is impressive but often slow and emotionally remote. In veering away from the kitchen-sink realism of most immigrant dramas, Rogin and Ott have made too much oblique. Despite program notes, many allusions to Chinese heritage will elude even spectators acquainted with Peking Opera, the crucial inspiration. To Ott, femaleness, not ethnicity, is at the heart of the story. "The relationships...
...SCORING Name G A Pts. Duesing, Cor 4 0 8 Hoge, Y 3 2 8 Woodroofe, Y 3 1 7 Teti, Y 2 3 7 Ott, Cor 3 0 6 K.DeLellis, H 0 6 6 McBean...
...SCORING Name G A Pts. Woodroofe, Y 3 1 7 Duesing, Cor 3 0 6 Ott, Cor 3 0 6 Boulanger, D 2 2 6 Greaux, B 2 2 6 K. DeLellis, H 0 6 6 Dammen...
Name G A Pts. Woodroofe, Y 3 1 7 Duesing, Cor 3 0 6 Ott, Cor 3 0 6 Greaux, B 2 2 6 Teti, Y 1 3 5 K. DeLellis...