David Henry Hwang
1) Golden Child
Author
Language
English
Description
A new play by the author of M. Butterfly which premieres on Broadway in April. Golden Child travels across time and place from contemporary America to mainland China in 1918 and depicts the challenges of a culture in transition to the influences of western civilization.
2) Chinglish
Author
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed playwright David Henry Hwang's hilarious comedy Chinglish has been described as "a sly, funny, multi-tiered joke with a laugh-out-loud surface that conceals a movingly somber aftertaste" (Village Voice) and "a triumph in any language" (New York Magazine).Springing from the author's personal experiences in China, Chinglish follows a Midwestern American businessman desperately seeking to score a lucrative contact for his family's firm as he...
Author
Language
English
Description
David Henry Hwang has created an extraordinary body of work over the last twenty years: the Tony Award-winning play, M. Butterfly; the OBIE Award-winning and 1998 Tony nominated Golden Child; the libretti to The Voyage (included here) and 1000 Airplanes on the Roof (both for composer Philip Glass); and the book to Aida, which he coauthored. He has received fellowships from the Rockefeller and Guggenheim foundations, the National Endowment for the...
5) M. Butterfly
Author
Language
English
Description
Drama about East-West relations, love, sex, and politics. French diplomat compromised by disclosure that his Chinese mistress is in actuality a male spy. 3 acts, 27 scenes, 7 men, 3 women, 1 setting.
7) Possession
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Roland is an academic researcher who discovers some important letters written by a famous Victorian poet, Randolph Henry Ash. Ash was presumed to have been totally devoted to his wife, but Roland finds letters written to another unnamed woman, and soon determines that the intended recipient was another, less well-known poet, Christabel LaMotte. Roland contacts Maud, an expert on LaMotte's life and work. Despite her skepticism, the two begin to investigate,...