In Viola Spolin’s seminal work Improvisation for the Theater, the very first exercise listed is named “exposure.” During this exercise, a group of actors are divided into halves and instructed to simply look at others and allow others to look at them. This deceptively difficult task often challenges new performers greatly; not only do they […]
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‘Afong Moy was a real person’
The year was 1834. Indigenous communities were being displaced from their ancestral homelands on the forced march known as the Trail of Tears. Over two million people of African descent were enslaved. And America’s first model minority, Afong Moy, was imported to New York: a 14-year-old girl with bound feet, made to perform for the […]
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A Chinese American basketball player is lost in Tiananmen Square in The Great Leap
Thirty years later, Lauren Yee’s play depicts the events during the failed Chinese uprising with sympathy and surprising humor.