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The House Of Sleeping Beauties
''The House of Sleeping Beauties'' is a 1983 play by United States, American playwright David Henry Hwang. Hwang's fourth play, it is an adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata's novella ''The House of the Sleeping Beauties, House of the Sleeping Beauties''. The play depicts Kawabata and how he might have come to have written the novella. The play was first produced as part of the production ''Sound and Beauty'' on November 6, 1983 Off-Broadway at the Joseph Papp Public Theater. It was directed by John Lone, with Victor Wong (actor born 1927), Victor Wong in the cast. It is published as part of ''Trying to Find Chinatown: The Selected Plays'' by Theatre Communications Group. and also in an acting edition published by Dramatists Play Service. References {{DEFAULTSORT:House Of Sleeping Beauties Plays by David Henry Hwang 1983 plays Plays set in Japan Plays based on novels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Henry Hwang
David Henry Hwang (born August 11, 1957) is an American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and theater professor at Columbia University in New York City. He has won three Obie Awards for his plays '' FOB'', '' Golden Child'', and '' Yellow Face''. Three of his works—''M. Butterfly'', ''Yellow Face'', and ''Soft Power''—have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Early life He was born in 1957 in Los Angeles, California, to Henry Yuan Hwang, the founder of Far East National Bank, and Dorothy Hwang, a piano teacher. The oldest of three children, he has two younger sisters. He received a bachelor's degree in English from Stanford University in 1979 and attended the Yale School of Drama between 1980 and 1981, taking literature classes. He left once workshopping of new plays began, since he already had a play being produced in New York. His first play was produced at the Okada House dormitory (named Junipero House at the time) at Stanford University after he briefl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
