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description: It's 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 Hwang's father the first Asian American to own a federally chartered bank and the espionage charges against physicist Wen Ho Lee.
language: English
title: Yellow Face
publisher: Theatre Communications Group