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The Square's Roots.(Review) (theater review)

American Theatre,  October, 2000  by Kondo, Dorinne

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How a challenging game for 16 playwrights broke new ground

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When the Asian Theatre Workshop was founded in 1995 at Los Angeles's Mark Taper Forum, director Chay Yew came up with an ambitious plan: ask established and emerging playwrights to address the relationships between Asian Americans and non-Asian Americans and combine their ideas in a single production. Yew turned to director Lisa Peterson, and a heady conversation eventually snowballed into The Square, a grand and groundbreaking project, first staged as a workshop in the Taper's New Works Festival in 1997 and presented ...

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