The Fairy Princess was very sad to read about Manhattan Theater Club cancelling their production of Qui Ngyuen’s POOR YELLA REDNECKS that was scheduled for this coming May.
Hopefully this is a reschedule and not a true cancellation – because adding insult to injury would be having a Vietnamese American story being cancelled because the POTUS chose to ineptly mishandle the COVID-19 crisis, while choosing to ramp up racism against AAPIs.
Not only are we being attacked in the streets, but we are being erased from the stage – and that is just…
Wait, don’t believe TFP?
AHEM…
WE’RE GONNA DIE by Young Jean Lee, (Broadway’s only Asian American female playwright) closed early at Second Stage.
CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND at Signature Theater by Lauren Yee closed early.
ENDLINGS by Celine Song at NY Theater Workshop closed early.
THE HEADLANDS by Christopher Chen at LCT3 closed early.
SUICIDE FORREST by Haruna Lee at Ma Yi closed early.
The RAGE PLAY by Nandita Shenoy never got a chance to open at the Abrons Center.
Sondheim’s ASSASSINS at East West Players is looking to reschedule.
Right now, CAMBODIA AGONISTES by Ernest Abuba is still on for their May 18th start, at Pan Asian Rep, but really, who knows?
Quite a list.
Anyway, it a HUGE blow to AAPI’s who have long been overlooked on our stages, to then have the stories (Some centered around community issues, some not) unable to be seen – it is infuriating.
Plus, let’s face it – none of the people calling us names, attacking us cares to tell us apart – so does it matter to an ignorant racist that you happen to have heritage from a country other than China?
No, it doesn’t.
So we are ALL going to have to walk around as if armed from now until the foreseeable future, and be extra careful with our kids and elders – and that is just exhausting.
TFP hates it.
She is also very sad to know that so many are suffering and passing from COVID-19, and that AAPIs are still getting blamed for it. Meanwhile, AAPI are not immune from it, and are losing their lives to it – and it is JUST A VIRUS.
It’s just a virus.
It could have happened anywhere the circumstances were available for it to jump species.
ANYWHERE animals and humans interact.
So. Much. Ignorance.
However it is not all bad there is some light at the end of the tunnel
@TheaterWit is going to make it’s production of Mike Lew’s TEENAGE DICK available on Vimeo for specific dates and times.
The McCarter Theater Center in Princeton, NJ will be producing, for their 2020-2021 Season, both TIGER STYLE by Mr. Lew in January and the musical, ‘BHANGIN IT –book by Mike Lew and Rehana Lew Mirza, music and lyrics by Sam Willmott.
All super cool.
And may TFP just mention that TIGER STYLE is a play.
TIGER KING is an insane docu series about big cat animal abuse on NETFLIX and neither of them have anything to do with one another, so don’t get it twisted.
Also, Tigers and Lions oh my should not be in captivity. Private zoos are hideous.
KIM’S CONVENIENCE just ended their season in Canada, so that means the USA will get it here on NETFLIX …wait for it – TOMORROW!!!!!
TFP finds re-watching episodes in this time of forced closeness, oddly comforting.
AND NOW THERE ARE MORE!!!!
KILLING EVE on BBC America moved up it’s release date by two weeks – and waaay better performers in it that just are ACTING like they kill people and stars Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer…who are just ACTING….as opposed to people seeming to have done away with their former spouses….
ALLEGEDLY!
Ok Peeps, writing this every day is kinda a lot, but here ya go…something to keep you busy.
When this is over, you must take the pledge – you must buy a ticket to a play by an AAPI Playwright.
Make it happen – grab yourself a ticket, make a pledge to see people’s work.
You need it.
They need it.
We are all going to need as much ‘escape’ as possible, given the way this virus is replicating.
Please accept TFP‘s condolences for any losses you may have suffered during this time, her heart is with you,
Stay safe. Stay home.
TFP out.
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