Yellow Face (TCG Edition) [Paperback]

“A thesis of a play, unafraid of complexities and contradictions, pepped up with a light dramatic fizz. It asks whether race is skin-deep, actable or even fakeable, and it does so with huge wit and brio.” -TimeOut London

“A pungent play of ideas with a big heart.Yellow Facebrings 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

“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. An exploration of Asian identity and the ever-changing definition of what it is to be an American,Yellow Face“is by turns acidly funny, insightful and provocative” (Washington Post).

The play begins with the 1990s controversy over color-blind casting forMiss Saigonbefore 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 Facealso 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. Adroitly combining the light touch of comedy with weighty political and emotional issues, Hwang creates a lively and provocative cultural self-portrait [that] lets nobody off the hook” (The New York Times).

David Henry Hwangis the author of the Tony Award-winningM. Butterfly,Yellow Face(OBIE Award, 2008 Pulitzer Prize finalist),Golden Child(1997 OBIE Award),FOB(1981 OBIE Award),Family Devotions(Drama Desk nomination), and the books for musicalsAida( co-author),Flower Drum Song(2002 Broadway revival), andTarzan, among other works. David Henry Hwang graduated from Stanford Unl£)