{"id":26849,"date":"2012-12-08T04:31:19","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T04:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26849"},"modified":"2012-12-08T04:31:19","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T04:31:19","slug":"a-hapa-family-in-chekhovs-three-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26849","title":{"rendered":"A Hapa Family in Chekhov&#8217;s Three Sisters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinejournals.sjsu.edu\/index.php\/AALDP\/article\/view\/90\" target=\"_blank\">A Hapa Family in Chekhov&#8217;s Three Sisters<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinejournals.sjsu.edu\/index.php\/AALDP\/index\" target=\"_blank\">Asian American Literature: Discourses &amp; Pedagogies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinejournals.sjsu.edu\/index.php\/AALDP\/issue\/view\/26\/showToc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 3<\/a> (2012), Special Issue: Mixed Heritage Asian American Literature<br \/>\npages 130-146<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elizabeth Liang<\/strong>, Actress, Writer, Producer and co-host of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/hapahappyhour.libsyn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hapa Happy Hour<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is an act of courage or foolhardiness to produce theatre in the heart of the film world, depending on your point of view and how large the houses turn out to be. In the fall of 2005, I produced <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Three_Sisters_(play)\" target=\"_blank\">Three Sisters<\/a><\/em> in a 60-seat theatre in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Burbank,_California\" target=\"_blank\">Burbank, California<\/a> (home of Disney and Warner Bros.). The odds were stacked even higher against the show&#8217;s success when I stipulated that the main characters, the upper-class and highly educated Russian Prozorov siblings, had to be played by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=329\" target=\"_blank\">hapa<\/a> actors. This essay describes my attempt to interpret the play through a multi-ethnic lens while working with a monoracial director, and the challenges this posed, both on the stage and off.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinejournals.sjsu.edu\/index.php\/AALDP\/article\/view\/90\/159\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Hapa Family in Chekhov&#8217;s Three Sisters Asian American Literature: Discourses &amp; Pedagogies Volume 3 (2012), Special Issue: Mixed Heritage Asian American Literature pages 130-146 Elizabeth Liang, Actress, Writer, Producer and co-host of &#8220;Hapa Happy Hour&#8221; It is an act of courage or foolhardiness to produce theatre in the heart of the film world, depending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,16,8],"tags":[12427,3728,12423],"class_list":["post-26849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-asia","category-media-archive","tag-anton-chekhov","tag-asian-american-literature-discourses-pedagogies","tag-elizabeth-liang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}