Fall Arts from A to Z
A primer to the season's best bets.
YOUNG JEAN LEE. The New York Times and The New Yorker lavished profiles and praise on rising young Korean American playwright Young Jean Lee for her explorations of African American identity politics in The Shipment. Five black actors perform songs, sketches, and subversive comedy, asking whether anyone knows what it means to be black or, more to the point, if it’s racist to provide a definition. Trash-talking comics, aspiring young rappers, party—goers in a penthouse—do we expect them to behave in assigned ways? Do they assign themselves roles according to those expectations? Lee unloads tough questions yet asks them with humor more than vitriol. “Anger,” she told the Times, “is the last vestige of a dying argument.” October 1–4, On the Boards, 206-217-9888; ontheboards.org
An interview with Young Jean Lee:
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Published: September 2009
Look at his beautiful eye….wink