{"product_id":"straight-white-men-untitled-feminist-show-paperback","title":"Straight White Men \/ Untitled Feminist Show - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYoung Jean Lee\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Young Jean Lee's \u003cem\u003eUntitled Feminist Show \u003c\/em\u003eis one of the more moving and imagina­tive works I have ever seen on the American stage...what 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, \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The twisty, turbulent, argumentative work of Young Jean Lee...will make you flinch, but it's hard to look away...Lee has always been interested in exposing how we perform our identities. But in \u003cem\u003eStraight White Men\u003c\/em\u003e, 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, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e \"Who said the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak? Both are pretty damn fierce in director Young Jean Lee's all-nude dance suite cheekily (but purposefully) called \u003cem\u003eUntitled Feminist Show\u003c\/em\u003e. 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, \u003cem\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/em\u003e \"\u003cem\u003eStraight White Men \u003c\/em\u003emight be the most subversive thing that Young Jean Lee, one of American theater's most keenly seditious practitioners, has ever done.\" --Alexis Soloski, \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e \"Young Jean Lee is, hands down, the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation.\" --Charles Isherwood, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eYoung Jean Lee\u003c\/strong\u003e, with \u003cem\u003eStraight White Men\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYoung Jean Lee\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer, director and filmmaker who has been called \"the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation\" by the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e and \"one of the best experimental playwrights in America\" by \u003cem\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/em\u003e. She has written and directed ten shows in New York with Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, and toured her work to over thirty cities around the world. Her plays have been published by Theatre Communications Group (\u003cem\u003eSongs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Other Plays\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe Shipment and Lear\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eWe're Gonna Die\u003c\/em\u003e) and by Samuel French. Lee is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two OBIE Awards, a Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a Doris Duke Artist Residency, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant, the ZKB Patronage Prize of the Zürcher Theater Spektakel, and the 2019 Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 16, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771571601696,"sku":"9781559365031","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/81bfe31ed7263d848ac27445a351dc1f.webp?v=1780388709","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/straight-white-men-untitled-feminist-show-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}