The Square's Roots.(Review) (theater review)
American Theatre, October, 2000 by Kondo, Dorinne
How a challenging game for 16 playwrights broke new ground
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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