tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48438557785804164.post3979585186308177290..comments2023-07-23T07:43:59.582-07:00Comments on NYC Day2Day: Day 101: The PlayYoshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04648015364090236649noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48438557785804164.post-3859503030128552852010-12-13T13:18:18.600-08:002010-12-13T13:18:18.600-08:00Wow, great find! I'll have to check out her ot...Wow, great find! I'll have to check out her other works :)Glennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16871812179070819575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48438557785804164.post-8068303500432517612010-12-09T23:26:03.773-08:002010-12-09T23:26:03.773-08:00Interesting observation, Glennis. Those are themes...Interesting observation, Glennis. Those are themes very common (though certainly not unique to) Asian-American culture. I wonder if the author, who is second-generation Korean, intentionally selected them. Julia Cho has done prior work that explicitly explores Asian-American topics before, so this may be just another way of expressing the same issues and values in a different and subtler format. In <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/23/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/24ctprofile.html" rel="nofollow">a 2006 article in the New York Times</a>, she says this:<br /><br />“What I was trying to articulate in a lot of these plays is what it is to be Asian-American. But I think I might be getting to the end of that exploration. Not that I’m done with it, but I’ve sort of caught up a bit to where I am now.”<br /><br />Finally, I will echo your gratitude to once again say THANK YOU to Mei Ling of the tickets!Yoshihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04648015364090236649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48438557785804164.post-74078682302910091422010-12-09T19:10:31.859-08:002010-12-09T19:10:31.859-08:00Loved reading this post! And I also enjoyed the La...Loved reading this post! And I also enjoyed the Language Archive...you expressed the experience so well! I liked your line: "The play is a poignant and humorous show with some complex and insightful soliloquies that wax poetic about the strange intersection of love and language" I think something else that was interesting was the "Asian-American" themes that were addressed even in a Caucasian setting (non-expressive man, using mundane words and tasks to communicate love, difficulty expressing ideas and feelings to older generations, etc.) was fascinating. Thankful we have friends like Mei Ling to score us these tix!Glennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16871812179070819575noreply@blogger.com