{"product_id":"yellow-face-acting-edition-for-theater-productions","title":"Yellow Face (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA pungent play of ideas with a big heart. Yellow Face brings to the national discussion about race a sense of humor a mile wide  an even-handed treatment and a hopeful  healing vision of a world that could be. Variety Charming  touching  and cunningly organized as well as funny  with an Ibsenite reach and stature far beyond any issues of Hwangs self-image. The Village Voice Its about our country  about public image  about face  says David Henry Hwang about his latest work  a mock documentary that puts Hwang himself center stage as it explores both Asian identity as well as race in America. The play begins with the 1990s controversy over color-blind casting for Miss Saigon  before it spins into a comic fantasy  in which the character DHH pens a play in protest and then unwittingly casts a white actor as the Asian lead. Yellow Face also explores the real-life investigation of Hwangs father  the first Asian American to own a federally chartered bank  and the espionage charges against physicist Wen Ho Lee. Adroitly combining the light touch of comedy with weighty political and emotional issues  Hwangs lively and provocative cultural self-portrait lets nobody off the hook (The New York Times). David Henry Hwang is the author of the Tony Awardwinning M. Butterfly  a finalist for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize. Other plays include Golden Child  FOB  The Dance and the Railroad  and Family Devotions; his opera libretti include three works for composer Philip Glass. He was appointed by President Clinton to the Presidents Committee on the Arts and Humanities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44984202166325,"sku":"ByrdShop_0822223015","price":90.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780822223016.jpg?v=1770826166","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/yellow-face-acting-edition-for-theater-productions","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}