This for all you theatre-going folks in Seattle... This week, ReAct Theatre and Pork Filled Players present the Northwest premiere of acclaimed playwright David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face, a comic "mockumentary" about mistaken racial identity. The play runs August 5 to September 3 at the Richard Hugo House in Seattle. Here are some more details:
The Repertory Actors Theatre (ReAct Theatre) and the Pork Filled PlayersThe play is directed by David Hsieh and stars Julia Beers, Jeremy Behrens, Stephanie Kim, Agastya Kohli, Lee Osorio, Henry Vu and Moses Yim. Special props go to my old friend Maggie Lee, who is doing lighting for this show.
present
YELLOW FACE
by David Henry Hwang
Richard Hugo House
1634 11th Ave
Seattle, WA
August 5 to September 3
Fridays at 8:00pm
Saturdays at 2:00pm
Saturdays at 8:00pm
Tickets:
Online, in advance, at Brown Paper Tickets
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/181433
GeneralAdmission: $12
Students/Seniors: $9
At the door:
GeneralAdmission: $15
Students/Seniors: $12
TPS/Industry/Union: $6
Group Discount Rates are also available for parties of 10 or more
Casting himself as the protagonist, Hwang recounts his (maybe true, maybe not) hard-hitting attempts to protest yellow face casting in Miss Saigon on Broadway–-and his own accidental casting of a white man as Asian. Mixing real events, real headlines and real people with fictional characters and dramatic license, YELLOW FACE explores and pokes fun at the role of race in modern American society, media, politics and theatre.
By the way, David Henry Hwang will be in Seattle to attend the 8:00pm, August 13 performance of Yellow Face, and will participate in a talkback session after the play. See the man, the Hwang himself, in the flesh.
For more information about Yellow Face, visit the ReAct website here or the Pork Filled Players website here. And to purchase advance tickets, head over to Brown Paper Tickets.
