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Pleasure Theater by Scarlett Kool6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The firm they establish, Lehman Brothers, spectacularly collapses into bankruptcy 163 years later, triggering the largest financial crisis in history. ![]() He is joined by his two brothers, and an American epic begins. ![]() On a cold September morning in 1844, a young man from Bavaria stands on a New York dockside dreaming of a new life in the new world. “You can almost see yourself in its hard-won polish…Suh’s version of Afong Moy is wonderful.”įeaturing David Mandel*, Michael Smallwood* & R.W. Suh’s extraordinary play, we look at Afong and see whole centuries of American history” “…piercing and intimate…this quiet play steadily deepens in complexity…by the end of Mr. Inspired by the true story of Afong Moy’s life, THE CHINESE LADY is a dark, poetic, yet whimsical portrait of America through the eyes of a young Chinese woman. As the decades wear on, her celebrated sideshow comes to define and challenge her very sense of identity. soil, she has been put on display for the American public as “The Chinese Lady.” For the next half-century, she performs for curious white people, showing them how she eats, what she wears, and the highlight of the event: how she walks with bound feet. Allegedly the first Chinese woman to set foot on U.S. Afong Moy is fourteen years old when she’s brought to the United States from Guangzhou Province in 1834. ![]()
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