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CHINA CALLS (12/04/2000)
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Role: Lonnie
Running Date: December 4, 2000 (New Dramatists, New York, NY)
Director: Loy Arcenas(No Tagline)Synopsis: The tale of transcontinental Chicago-Beijing flights and calls between the author opening his play in Chicago and his visits to his school-age children in the capital of China in 1998-1999. If that sounds a bit frantic/frenetic, know that the play veers from rhyming snoop-doggy-doggerel, to Mongolian cadences, to the quietest communication between family members trying to talk to each other across the void and veld of the globalized Asiatic village. Cast:
David Straitharn .... Lonnie
Randall Duk Kim .... ?
Sharon Scruggs .... ?
Tanya Selvaratnam .... ? Notes:
• This performance was a re-working of the play that was read the previous November (1999) at New Dramatists. It was written by playwright Lonnie Carter, whom the main character is based on. Related Links:
Press Release: RAT New Dramatists December Schedule - China Calls (off site)
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