FOB and other plays / David Henry Hwang ; with a foreword by Maxine Hong Kingston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hwang, David Henry, 1957-

Contributor:

Kingston, Maxine Hong.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Plume book

A Plume book

Standardized Title:

Plays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese Americans--Drama.

Chinese Americans.

American drama--20th century.

American drama.

American drama--Chinese American authors.

Chinese American authors.

Genre:

Librettos.

Drama.

Plays (performing arts compositions)

Scripts (documents)

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xv pages, 1 unnumbered page, 302 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : New American Library a division of Penguin Books USA Inc. ; Markham, Ontario : Published in Penguin Books Canada Limited, [©1990]

Contents:

FOB

The dance and the railroad

Family devotions

The house of sleeping beauties

The sound of a voice

Rich relations

1000 airplanes on the roof.

Notes:

"'FOB' was first produced by Nancy Takahashi for the Stanford Asian American Theatre Project. It was performed at Okada House on March 2, 1979 ... The play as then deveoped at the 1979 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference in Waterford Connecticut ... FOB was produced in New York by Joseph Papp at the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater, where it opened on June 8, 1980 ..."

"'The Dance and the Railroad' was first produced by the Henry Street Settlement's New Federal Theater, Woodie King, Jr., and Steven Tennen, producers. It opened on March 25, 1981 ... It was then produced by Joseph Papp at the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater, where it opened at the Anspacher Theater on July 16, 1981 ..."

"'Family Devotions' was produced by Joseph Papp at the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater, where it opened in the Newman Theater on October 18, 1981 ..."

"'The House of Sleeping Beauties' was produced by Joseph Papp with the 'The Sound of a Voice' under the omnibus title 'Sound and Beauty' at the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater, where it opened in LuEsther Hall on November 6, 1983 ..."

"'The Sound of a Voice' was produced by Joseph Papp with 'The House of Sleeping Beauties' under the omnibus tittle 'Sound and Beauty' at the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater, where it opened on November 6, 1983 ..."

"'Rich Relations' was produced by The Second Stage, Carole Rothman and Robyn Goodman, artistic directors, where it opened on April 21, 1986 ..."

"'1000 Airplanes on the Roof' is a three-way collaboration between myself, Philip Glass, and Jerome Sirlin. The text printed here is a monologue designed to be read against a 90-minute Glass instrumental piece, performed by his ensemble ... The third element in our collaboration is the 'visual libreto' supplied by Jerome Sirlin - a series of constantly changing three-dimensional projections which provide the set for our character 'M' ..."

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Contains:

Hwang, David Henry, 1957- FOB.

Hwang, David Henry, 1957- Dance and the railroad.

Hwang, David Henry, 1957- Family devotions.

Hwang, David Henry, 1957- House of sleeping beauties.

Hwang, David Henry, 1957- Sound of a voice.

Hwang, David Henry, 1957- Rich relations.

Hwang, David Henry, 1957- 1000 airplanes on the roof.

FOB.

Dance and the railroad.

Family devotions.

House of sleeping beauties.

Sound of a voice.

Rich relations.

1000 airplanes on the roof.

One thousand airplanes on the roof.

Other Format:

Online version: Hwang, David Henry, 1957- FOB and other plays.

ISBN:

0452263239

9780452263239

OCLC:

20452743