Straight White Men / Untitled Feminist Show

ISBN: 155936503X

Author: Lee, Young Jean

Condition: New

Young Jean Lees Untitled Feminist Show is one of the more moving and imaginative works I have ever seen on the American stagewhat makes it so transcendent is its delicious ability to alternate the pain of being different with a sense of humor about lives not lived among the status quo. -Hilton Als, New YorkerThe twisty, turbulent, argumentative work of Young Jean Leewill make you flinch, but its hard to look awayLee has always been interested in exposing how we perform our identities. But in Straight White Men, she drills into something more core. Shuck off, subvert, cleave to your gender or race all you like, but a universal horror of weakness remains-a collective orientation toward status, power, control.-Parul Sehgal, New York TimesWho said the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak? Both are pretty damn fierce in director Young Jean Lees all-nude dance suite cheekily (but purposefully) called Untitled Feminist Show. In a scant (and scantily clad) hour, Lee and her gutsy dancers try on a dizzying variety of modes and masks to shake up gender norms. -David Cote, Time Out New YorkStraight White Men might be the most subversive thing that Young Jean Lee, one of American theaters most keenly seditious practitioners, has ever done. -Alexis Soloski, GuardianYoung Jean Lee is, hands down, the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation. -Charles Isherwood, New York TimesYoung Jean Lee, with Straight White Men, became the first Asian-American woman to have her play produced on Broadway. She has directed her work in more than thirty cities around the world, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two OBIE Awards, a Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a PEN Literary Award.