Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Other Plays
Young Jean Lee
Theatre Communications Group
<p>"Bold, unguarded work . . . that resists pat definition. [Young Jean] Lee has penned profane lampoons of motivational bromides (<i>Pullman, WA</i>) and the Romantic poets (<i>The Appeal</i>). Now she piles her deconstructive scorn upon ethnic stereotypes in <i>Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven</i>, a sweet-and-sour parade of Asian minstrelsy."&#8212;<i>Time Out New York</i></p><p>"A perverse, provocative, and very funny festival of racism . . . <i>Songs</i> offers not only chauvinistic monologues and ass-slapping Korean dances, but also a rigorous exploration of art-making and its associated terrors."&#8212;<i>The Village Voice</i></p><p>"Have you ever noticed how most Asian Americans are slightly brain-damaged from having grown up with Asian parents?" begins the Korean American protagonist of <i>Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven</i>, the singular work of Young Jean Lee, whose plays are like nothing you have ever seen or read. This is the first collection by the...</p>