Undesirable Elements
Description
"The cumulative power of these shared stories is nothing short of astonishing. Ping Chong creates a tremendous tapestry of lives."?Twin Cities Reader
This three-piece volume of Undesirable Elements, the community-specific theater works series, examines the lives of those born into one culture but living in another. Each production grows out of an extended residency, during which Ping Chong and his collaborators conduct interviews of community members and then create a script that explores both historical and personal narratives.
Ping Chong is a theater director, playwright, choreographer, and video and installation artist. The recipient of two OBIE awards, two Bessie awards, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, he has created more than fifty works for the stage, including twenty-five in his Undesirable Elements series.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction By Alisa Solomon
- UNDESIRABLE ELEMENTS
- Notes on Production
- Undesirable Elements (Original Production), 1992
- Children of War, 2002
- UE 92/06 (Anniversary Production), 2006
- Inside/Out . . . voices from the disability community, 2008
- Collaborator Interviews
- An Oral History of an Oral History: Voices of Undesirable Elements, Interviews by Victoria Abrash
- Ping Chong
- Talvin Wilks
- Sara Zatz
- Timothy Bond
- Farinaz Amirsehi
- Frances Kao
- Soula Antoniou and Elena Widder
- Leyla Modirzadeh
- Methodology
- Methodology: An Overview by Sara Zatz
- Staging a Comeback By Matthew S. Joffe
- Matthew S. Joffe: Participant Information Background Form (2008)
- Production/Partner History: Undesirable Elements / 1992-2012
- About The Authors
