35th Season 2000-2001

The Year of the Dragon
By Frank Chin
Directed by Mako

 

Set Design Yoichi Aoki

Costume Designer Dori Quan

Lighting Designer Frank McKown

Sound Designer Miles Ono

Property Master Scott Fujimoto

Production Stage Manager Ricardo Figueroa

LOS ANGELES PREMIERE
Opening Date: January 31, 2001

"We'come a Chinatown, Folks!" And welcome back to Fred Eng's Chinatown tours! In this, the Year of the Dragon, EWP Founding Artistic Director Mako directs this seminal play by the playwright may consider to be the godfather of Asian American theatre.  This play caused an enormous uproar when it was first produced in 1974.  It not only influenced a generation of Asian Pacific American writers, but it also had a profound impact on an entire generation of Asian Americans.

Cast

Shizuko Hoshi.....................................China Mama

Dana Lee...........................................................Pa

Mimosa............................................................Sis

Brian Mulligan................................................Ross

Trieu Tran...................................................Johnny

Momo Yashima.................................................Ma

Keone Young..................................................Fred

Understudies

Steve Humphreys...........................................Ross

Rodney Jao.................................................Johnny

Elizabeth Jee...............................................Ma/Sis

Harry Du Young.................................................Pa
 

 

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs,

generosity of George and Sakaye Aratani, Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc, and Seagram Americas.

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