{"product_id":"undesirable-elements-real-people-real-lives-real-theater-paperback","title":"Undesirable Elements: Real People, Real Lives, Real Theater - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePing Chong\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAlisa Solomon\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cumulative power of these shared stories is nothing short of astonishing. Ping Chong creates a tremendous tapestry of lives.--\u003ci\u003eTwin Cities Reader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Chong's extraordinary series of choral documentary dramas, bodies that had once been rendered 'undesirable elements' become - as bodies on stage always do, through the theater's magical mechanisms of empathy and display - emphatically desirable. The performers - who are not professional actors - live in the community where they are performing and, most important, they are telling their own stories. Through the act of naming themselves and recounting how they came to be here - quite literally here, now, in the theater, as well as here in this town in the United States - they claim their place in the body politic. Theater, like America, is a space of self-making. The \u003ci\u003eUndesirable Elements\u003c\/i\u003e series offers a distilled, elegant demonstration of that exhilarating and complicated process. - Alisa Solomon, from Her Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e This four-piece volume of \u003ci\u003eUndesirable Elements\u003c\/i\u003e, the community-specific theater works series, examines the lives of those born into one culture but living in another. Each production grows out of an extended residency, during which Ping Chong and his collaborators conduct interviews of community members and then create a script that explores both historical and personal narratives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePing Chong\u003c\/b\u003e is a theater director, playwright, choreographer, and video and installation artist. The recipient of two OBIE awards, two Bessie awards, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, he has created more than fifty works for the stage, including twenty-five in his \u003ci\u003eUndesirable Elements\u003c\/i\u003e series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePing Chong is an internationally recognized theatre director, playwright, choreographer, video and installation artist. He is the recipient of two Obie awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship and two Bessie awards. Since 1972, he has created more then fifty works for the stage, including twenty-five works in his \"Undesirable Elements\" oral history series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 30, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771585233184,"sku":"9781559363976","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f7ce59af70286943ea85e5749061b16c.webp?v=1780388908","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/undesirable-elements-real-people-real-lives-real-theater-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}