Family Devotions
Play written by David Henry Hwang
Family Devotions | |
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Written by | David Henry Hwang |
Characters | Robert Ama Hannah Chester Wilbur PoPo Joanne Jenny DiGou |
Date premiered | October 18, 1981 |
Place premiered | Joseph Papp Public Theater New York City |
Original language | English |
Subject | East/West cultural stereotypes; Religion; Family |
Genre | Drama |
Setting | Los Angeles; early eighties |
Family Devotions is a 1981 play by American playwright David Henry Hwang.[1] Hwang's third play depicts the clash of West and East within three generations of an assimilated Chinese-American family living in a Los Angeles suburb. The play premiered on October 18, 1981 Off-Broadway at the Joseph Papp Public Theater.[2] It was directed by Robert Allan Ackerman, with Michael Paul Chan, Jodi Long, Lauren Tom, and Victor Wong. The play was nominated for a Drama Desk Award.
It is published as part of Trying to Find Chinatown: The Selected Plays by Theatre Communications Group.[3] It is also in an acting edition published by Dramatists Play Service.
References
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-13. Retrieved 2011-06-01.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Family Devotions". Public Theater. Archived from the original on July 9, 2012. Retrieved March 27, 2010.
- ^ "Trying to Find Chinatown: The Selected Plays". TCG. Archived from the original on March 8, 2012. Retrieved June 1, 2010.
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Works by David Henry Hwang
- FOB (1980)
- Family Devotions (1981)
- Rich Relations (1986)
- M. Butterfly (1988)
- Face Value (1993)
- Golden Child (1996)
- Peer Gynt (1998)
- Tibet Through the Red Box (2004)
- Yellow Face (2007)
- Chinglish (2011)
- Kung Fu (2014)
- The Dance and the Railroad (1981)
- The House of Sleeping Beauties (1983)
- The Sound of a Voice (1983)
- As the Crow Flies (1986)
- Bondage (1992)
- Trying to Find Chinatown (1996)
- Bang Kok (1996)
- Merchandising (1999)
- Jade Flowerpots and Bound Feet (2001)
- The Great Helmsman (2007)
- A Very DNA Reunion (2010)
- Cain and Abel (2014)
- Blind Alleys (1985)
- M. Butterfly (1993)
- Golden Gate (1994)
- The Lost Empire/The Monkey King (2001)
- Possession (2002)
- The Affair (2016)
- 1000 Airplanes on the Roof (1988)
- The Voyage (1992)
- The Silver River (1997)
- Aida (2000)
- Flower Drum Song (2001)
- Ainadamar (2003)
- The Sound of a Voice (2003)
- Tarzan (2006)
- Alice in Wonderland (2007)
- The Fly (2008)
- Dream of the Red Chamber (2016)
- An American Soldier (2018)
- Soft Power (2018)