Discover the work of 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist Lloyd Suh, whose work contests the pastness of the past, revealing the unexpected ways that history reverberates across the present to shape the future. Through his plays, Lloyd Suh has been documenting 150 years of Asian and Asian American experiences, exploring forgotten and ignored pivotal moments in Asian American history. His plays draw on a variety of forms and aesthetics to re-tell, re-discover, and re-invent the past. Unique in scope and perspective, these history plays offer a powerful metaphor for the ingenuity and endurance of Asian American communities. Alongside these five plays - The Chinese Lady, The Far Country, Bina''s Six Apples, Charles Francis Chan Jr.''s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery, and The Heart Sellers - this edition is rich with additional resources. Not only is each play accompanied by a preface by a theatre scholar and a postscript by a creative collaborator, but the collection opens with an introduction by editor Christine Mok and closes with a conversation with playwright himself. Taken together, the plays, along with their context, criticism, and collaborative insight, offer an expansive view of Suh''s vision in an inaugural collection to inspire theatre makers, actors, and students alike.

Autorentext
Lloyd Suh is an acclaimed American playwright, who received the 2019 Herb Alpert Award in Theatre. His works, including The Chinese Lady, Charles Francis Chan Jr's Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery, and Jesus in India, have been staged nationwide and internationally. Suh's contributions extend to the Dramatists Guild Council and the National Asian American Theatre Conference and Festival. Christine Mok *is Associate Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island, USA. Her work has been published in the Journal of Asian American Studies, Theatre Survey, TheatreJournal, Modern Drama, and PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. She is co-editor with Joshua Chambers-Letson of Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's China Trilogy: Three Parables of Global Capital* (Methuen Drama, 2022).

Klappentext
The first collected work of celebrated Chinese-American playwright Lloyd Suh, bringing together a number of his hit plays in print for the first time including the 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist The Far Country.

Inhalt

Introduction
I. Critical Preface for The Chinese Lady
The Chinese Lady
Creative Postscript for The Chinese Lady
II. Critical Preface for The Far Country
The Far Country
Creative Postscript for The Far Country
III. Critical Preface for Bina's Six Apples
Bina's Six Apples
Creative Postscript for Bina's Six Apples
IV. Critical Preface for Heart Sellers
Heart Sellers
Creative Postscript for Heart Sellers
V. Critical Preface for Charles Francis Chan Jr.'s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery
Charles Francis Chan Jr.'s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery
Creative Postscript for Charles Francis Chan Jr.'s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery