NYCPlaywrights February 10, 2024
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*** FREE THEATER IN NYC ***
PAPER DREAM
In honor of Women’s History Month, the Museum of Chinese in America is proud to collaborate with Playwright Lyra Nalan to present a staged reading of PAPER DREAM in remembrance of women detainees on Angel Island, the chief port of entry for Chinese and other immigrants from Asia.
Set in 1930, PAPER DREAM follows the story of a former Chinese aristocrat attempting to bring her daughter to America but finding herself trapped in Angel Island Detention Center with a working-class mother and a young woman with a questionable past.
Saturday March 9, 2024
3-5 PM
Museum of Chinese in America
215 Centre Street
New York, NY 10013
https://www.mocanyc.org/event/moca-performs-paper-dream/
*** NYCPLAYWRIGHTS ZOOMERS ***
You can sit in on a Zoomers meeting for free - let us know which Monday you want to join us by dropping a line to na...@nycplaywrights.org
Website: https://nycp-zoomers.blogspot.com
*** OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS ***
GreenMan will be presenting Eight to the Bar, an evening of eight 10 minute plays. The prompt is “Revenge is Sweet – or Is It?” The show will be performed in July, 2024 in Elmhurst, Illinois. Eight plays will be selected.
Cash prizes for the selected plays will be determined by the audience voting on their favorites during the run of the show:
1st Place - $200.00
2nd Place - $100.00
3rd Place - $50.00
***
This marks the fifth anniversary of the collaboration between IndyFringe and ARTI and the 14th staging of OnyxFest – the first and only theater festival in Indiana spotlighting exclusively works of Black writers. Grants will cover all expenses required to bring scripts from the page to the stage, says OnyxFest Director Vernon A. Williams. “This is an event designed to empower Black artists to create their own narrative and to tell their own unique stories.”
Entries must be original one-act plays between 45 minutes and an hour in length. There may be no more than five characters per cast.
***
Building on the growing success and popularity of our previous years, Shabach Enterprise presents its 12th season of the Fade To Black Play Festival, Houston's only short play festival celebrating the new works of African American playwrights.
Selected playwright winners will be awarded a cash prize of $100.00.
*** FOR MORE INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site at https://www.nycplaywrights.org ***
*** THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON ***
“Hao Bang Ah!” is a common Chinese expression meaning “Great!” or “Well done!” Each year, Chinese Theatre Works celebrates the Lunar New Year season with an original “budaixi” traditional Chinese glove-puppetry production that features the twelve animals of the Chinese Zodiac. This year’s show stars the Dragon, who presides over a jolly selection of wild puppet skits, dances, popular songs, and well-known Chinese sayings that celebrate the wit and wisdom of the zodiac animals.
More...
https://chinesetheatreworks.org/our-programs/hao-bang-ah-rabbit/
***
Loong is the first realistic drama to interpret dragon boat culture in China. It shares a story that a dragon boat team with excellent youths nationwide, especially from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area competes for China at the international dragon boat competition, and finally, they succeed in winning honor for the country.
More...
https://www.newsgd.com/node_3c3902cb95/5b1ce8d5de.shtml
***
The Shen Yun dance program utilizes the rich mythological history of early China to create its storied performing art enactments. These treasured cultural tapestries are woven from a world that features gods, man and dragons interacting.
Dragons in Chinese culture, as it can be divined from the earliest decades of the country, has these beasts as anthropomorphic empires of their realm, possessed of magical abilities and guarded by troops filled with sea-dwelling creatures. Often sacred and benign, but also potentially evil, these ancient winged lizards ruled every body of water of every size throughout China.
Morre...
https://artsculturetheater.com/dragon-kings-of-mythistory-shen-yun-performing-arts/
***
In The Golden Dragon, produced by New York City’s Play Company at the New Ohio Theatre May 8–June 9 (2013), five actors take on 15 roles. Age, ethnic background and gender become moot as actors morph from one role to the next in short nonlinear scenes: a young Chinese kitchen-hand suffers from an excruciating toothache. Without insurance or working papers, he receives an impromptu extraction in the kitchen. The tooth flies into the soup of a customer. Meanwhile, two stewardesses converse on the ground while interludes about an elegant grasshopper that is violated and abused by a cricket pepper the goings-on.
Schimmelpfennig’s play was not inspired by a trip to the dentist or the exterminator but by “a group of young, mostly illegal aliens and a lawyer who took up their cases in Germany and Europe,” says the playwright, who wanted to write a play about immigration issues while avoiding documentary-theatre tendencies. Instead he set out to “seduce people to listen and to the watch the most beautiful and the oldest of theatrical ideas: to ‘play,’ to tell a relevant story.”
More...
https://www.americantheatre.org/2013/05/01/roland-schimmelpfennings-the-golden-dragon-fuses-cultures/
***
China boasts dozens of regional styles of opera, which all have their own unique histories. Sichuan opera, also called Chuanju, dates back to the 18th century. The form is composed of four main elements – chang (singing), zuo (acting), nian (speaking), and da (percussion). The percussion ensemble, called luogu, contains over 20 kinds of instruments including drums, gongs, and cymbals, which create a rich palette of sounds that accompany performers. The art form also combines acrobatics, martial arts, and stunning costumes into to a single, spectacular show.
In the video, Zhou Lu, an artist with Chongqing Chuanju Opera Theatre, gets into costume and makeup to perform a scene from the traditional play A Red Lotus over the Bibo Lake. She plays the role of Xia Gu, the unmarried daughter of the Dragon King, who lives in Dragon Lake.
More...
https://www.wfmt.com/2018/02/16/video-watch-chinese-opera-artist-transform-dragon-princess-seconds/
***
“The Year of the Dragon” is set in San Francisco's Chinatown, now. The hero is Fred Eng, a tourist guide, a travel agent, a man who can collaborate with his Bostonbased sister on a best‐selling “Mama Fufu's Cookbook,” but can also worry about a kid brother on probation with a gun in his pocket.
As in his earlier play, although even more directly, Mr. Chin is questioning identity—how Chinese or how American is the ChineseAmerican? And you don't get the answer in a fortune cookie
More...
https://www.nytimes.com/1974/06/03/archives/theater-culture-study-year-of-the-dragon-is-new-frank-chin-play-the.html
***
The Wandering Dragon Toys with the Phoenix - Beijing Opera 京剧游龙戏凤
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdS_bhC4PMI&t=3068s
*** FREE THEATER IN NYC ***
PAPER DREAM
In honor of Women’s History Month, the Museum of Chinese in America is proud to collaborate with Playwright Lyra Nalan to present a staged reading of PAPER DREAM in remembrance of women detainees on Angel Island, the chief port of entry for Chinese and other immigrants from Asia.
Set in 1930, PAPER DREAM follows the story of a former Chinese aristocrat attempting to bring her daughter to America but finding herself trapped in Angel Island Detention Center with a working-class mother and a young woman with a questionable past.
Saturday March 9, 2024
3-5 PM
Museum of Chinese in America
215 Centre Street
New York, NY 10013
https://www.mocanyc.org/event/moca-performs-paper-dream/
*** NYCPLAYWRIGHTS ZOOMERS ***
You can sit in on a Zoomers meeting for free - let us know which Monday you want to join us by dropping a line to na...@nycplaywrights.org
Website: https://nycp-zoomers.blogspot.com
*** OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS ***
GreenMan will be presenting Eight to the Bar, an evening of eight 10 minute plays. The prompt is “Revenge is Sweet – or Is It?” The show will be performed in July, 2024 in Elmhurst, Illinois. Eight plays will be selected.
Cash prizes for the selected plays will be determined by the audience voting on their favorites during the run of the show:
1st Place - $200.00
2nd Place - $100.00
3rd Place - $50.00
***
This marks the fifth anniversary of the collaboration between IndyFringe and ARTI and the 14th staging of OnyxFest – the first and only theater festival in Indiana spotlighting exclusively works of Black writers. Grants will cover all expenses required to bring scripts from the page to the stage, says OnyxFest Director Vernon A. Williams. “This is an event designed to empower Black artists to create their own narrative and to tell their own unique stories.”
Entries must be original one-act plays between 45 minutes and an hour in length. There may be no more than five characters per cast.
***
Building on the growing success and popularity of our previous years, Shabach Enterprise presents its 12th season of the Fade To Black Play Festival, Houston's only short play festival celebrating the new works of African American playwrights.
Selected playwright winners will be awarded a cash prize of $100.00.
*** FOR MORE INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site at https://www.nycplaywrights.org ***
*** THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON ***
“Hao Bang Ah!” is a common Chinese expression meaning “Great!” or “Well done!” Each year, Chinese Theatre Works celebrates the Lunar New Year season with an original “budaixi” traditional Chinese glove-puppetry production that features the twelve animals of the Chinese Zodiac. This year’s show stars the Dragon, who presides over a jolly selection of wild puppet skits, dances, popular songs, and well-known Chinese sayings that celebrate the wit and wisdom of the zodiac animals.
More...
https://chinesetheatreworks.org/our-programs/hao-bang-ah-rabbit/
***
Loong is the first realistic drama to interpret dragon boat culture in China. It shares a story that a dragon boat team with excellent youths nationwide, especially from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area competes for China at the international dragon boat competition, and finally, they succeed in winning honor for the country.
More...
https://www.newsgd.com/node_3c3902cb95/5b1ce8d5de.shtml
***
The Shen Yun dance program utilizes the rich mythological history of early China to create its storied performing art enactments. These treasured cultural tapestries are woven from a world that features gods, man and dragons interacting.
Dragons in Chinese culture, as it can be divined from the earliest decades of the country, has these beasts as anthropomorphic empires of their realm, possessed of magical abilities and guarded by troops filled with sea-dwelling creatures. Often sacred and benign, but also potentially evil, these ancient winged lizards ruled every body of water of every size throughout China.
Morre...
https://artsculturetheater.com/dragon-kings-of-mythistory-shen-yun-performing-arts/
***
In The Golden Dragon, produced by New York City’s Play Company at the New Ohio Theatre May 8–June 9 (2013), five actors take on 15 roles. Age, ethnic background and gender become moot as actors morph from one role to the next in short nonlinear scenes: a young Chinese kitchen-hand suffers from an excruciating toothache. Without insurance or working papers, he receives an impromptu extraction in the kitchen. The tooth flies into the soup of a customer. Meanwhile, two stewardesses converse on the ground while interludes about an elegant grasshopper that is violated and abused by a cricket pepper the goings-on.
Schimmelpfennig’s play was not inspired by a trip to the dentist or the exterminator but by “a group of young, mostly illegal aliens and a lawyer who took up their cases in Germany and Europe,” says the playwright, who wanted to write a play about immigration issues while avoiding documentary-theatre tendencies. Instead he set out to “seduce people to listen and to the watch the most beautiful and the oldest of theatrical ideas: to ‘play,’ to tell a relevant story.”
More...
https://www.americantheatre.org/2013/05/01/roland-schimmelpfennings-the-golden-dragon-fuses-cultures/
***
China boasts dozens of regional styles of opera, which all have their own unique histories. Sichuan opera, also called Chuanju, dates back to the 18th century. The form is composed of four main elements – chang (singing), zuo (acting), nian (speaking), and da (percussion). The percussion ensemble, called luogu, contains over 20 kinds of instruments including drums, gongs, and cymbals, which create a rich palette of sounds that accompany performers. The art form also combines acrobatics, martial arts, and stunning costumes into to a single, spectacular show.
In the video, Zhou Lu, an artist with Chongqing Chuanju Opera Theatre, gets into costume and makeup to perform a scene from the traditional play A Red Lotus over the Bibo Lake. She plays the role of Xia Gu, the unmarried daughter of the Dragon King, who lives in Dragon Lake.
More...
https://www.wfmt.com/2018/02/16/video-watch-chinese-opera-artist-transform-dragon-princess-seconds/
***
“The Year of the Dragon” is set in San Francisco's Chinatown, now. The hero is Fred Eng, a tourist guide, a travel agent, a man who can collaborate with his Bostonbased sister on a best‐selling “Mama Fufu's Cookbook,” but can also worry about a kid brother on probation with a gun in his pocket.
As in his earlier play, although even more directly, Mr. Chin is questioning identity—how Chinese or how American is the ChineseAmerican? And you don't get the answer in a fortune cookie
More...
https://www.nytimes.com/1974/06/03/archives/theater-culture-study-year-of-the-dragon-is-new-frank-chin-play-the.html
***
The Wandering Dragon Toys with the Phoenix - Beijing Opera 京剧游龙戏凤
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdS_bhC4PMI&t=3068s
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