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Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Other Plays - by Young Jean Lee (Paperback)

Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Other Plays - by  Young Jean Lee (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The first collection of esteemed downtown writer-director Young Jean Lee.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Have you ever noticed how most Asian Americans are slightly brain- damaged from having grown up with Asian parents? begins the Korean American protagonist of <i>Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven</i>, the singular work by Young Jean Lee. This is the first collection by the downtown writer-director, whose explorations of stereotypes of race, gender, and religion are unflinching--and seat-squirming funny. This volume includes the following plays: <p/><i>Songs of the Dragon Flying to Heaven</i><br>"Scathingly mischievous...<i>Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven</i> is a provocateur's funny, guns-blazing take on the utter banality of ethnic stereotypes and other cross-cultural outrages. In its slyly eccentric way, it's an evening of enlightenment." -Peter Marks, <i>Washington Post</i><br>"Part performance art, part comic sketches, fights, dance, song and 'reverse Bible study, ' and at times strangely serious, <i>Dragons</i> is a bracingly funny...always provocative equal-opportunity offender." -Robert Hurwitt, <i>San Francisco Gate</i><br>"Miss Lee has a talent for evocative and sometimes grotesque imagery, and on the attack she is at the height of her powers." -<i>New York Times</i> <p/><i>Church</i><br>"I will happily worship in the house of Young Jean Lee." -David Cote, <i>TimeOut New York</i><br>"A thoroughly entertaining, uplifting, inescapable piece of art...So thought provoking, it's only appropriate to give thanks and praise." -Helen Shaw, <i>The New York Sun</i> <p/><i>Pullman, WA</i><br>[Lee's] new work has the deadpan simplicity of the plays of Richard Maxwell and the awkward, secretly suffering angst of a teenage diarist working through an identity crisis.... It is an honest [work] that takes itself seriously, and that is refreshing. -Jason Zinoman, <i>New York Times</i> <p/><i>The Appeal</i><br><i>The Appeal</i> is the happiest literary desecration since Amy Freed's <i>The Bard of Avon</i>, in which Shakespeare declared, 'I have great thought-like things within my head.'" -Jeremy McCarter, <i>The New York Sun</i> <p/><i>Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals</i><br>"Lee is a queen of unease; chuckles never come unaccompanied by squirms." -<i>Village Voice</i> <p/><i>Yaggoo</i><br>"A rising star of the downtown theatre scene." -<i>New York Times</i> <p/><b>Young Jean Lee</b> has written and directed shows in New York with Young Jean Lee's Theater Company and toured her work to over twenty cities around the world. Her plays include <i>Straight White Men</i>, <i>We're Gonna Die</i>, <i>Untitled Feminist Show</i>, <i>The Shipment</i>, <i>Lear</i> and <i>Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven</i>. Awards include two Obies, the Festival Prize of the Zuercher Theater Spektakel, a Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Doris Duke Artist Award.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Young Jean Lee</b> has written and directed shows in New York with Young Jean Lee's Theater Company and toured her work to over twenty cities around the world. Her plays include <i>Straight White Men</i>, <i>We're Gonna Die</i>, <i>Untitled Feminist Show</i>, <i>The Shipment</i>, <i>Lear</i> and <i>Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven</i>. Awards include two Obies, the Festival Prize of the Zuercher Theater Spektakel, a Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Doris Duke Artist Award. <br>

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