2009 · 90 min · Captions
The Shipment
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About this performance
Playwright and director Young Jean Lee and a cast of 5 African-American performers create an unsettling terrain of well-trodden stereotypes that dare audiences to laugh as they consider their own preconceptions about race and culture. One of the leading and most provocative voices in American contemporary theater, Lee pushes herself to new artistic heights as she confronts her fear about creating an ethnic identity play through the lens of a “black identity politics show.”
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About the artist
Young Jean Lee
Young Jean Lee has written and directed nine shows in New York with Young Jean Lee's Theater Company and toured her work to over thirty cities. She is a resident filmmaker at the Wooster Group, she’s made an album with her band Future Wife, and directed a short film. She has received grants from various foundations and is the recipient of two OBIE awards, the Festival Prize of the Zuercher Theater Spektakel, a 2010 Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2012 Doris Duke Artist Award, and a 2013 Doris Duke Artist Residency.
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