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Thursday, October 1, 2009

Theater Now Playing: Young Jean Lee

Posted by on Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:01 PM

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We wrote about her in our Fall Arts Preview, and now Young Jean Lee is back in town:

Playwright Young Jean Lee runs with scissors. Her last Seattle show, Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven, deployed an army of Asian stereotypes and some onstage suicides. In interviews, Lee has said she always takes on the projects that scare her most, the ones that are a minefield of theatrical and identity-politics clichés, and then writes them anyway, trying to pull and twist the audience's preconceptions like taffy. For The Shipment, Lee deals with perhaps the most difficult subject to not fuck up: the cultural life and stereotypes surrounding African Americans. She's a bold one, that Young Jean Lee.

It begins tonight. Ticket information here.

 

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Max Solomon 1
ikea coffee table!
Posted by Max Solomon on October 1, 2009 at 1:32 PM
B Strand 2
The ticket information link is broken. Ticket info here.
Posted by B Strand http://www.twitter.com/strand206 on October 1, 2009 at 2:48 PM

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