{"id":35577,"date":"2014-01-22T15:33:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T15:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35577"},"modified":"2014-02-12T07:57:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T07:57:04","slug":"purple-cloud-by-jessica-huang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35577","title":{"rendered":"“Purple Cloud” by Jessica Huang"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Purple Cloud” by Jessica Huang<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mu Preforming Arts<\/a> presents: New Eyes Festival
\n Staged readings of the newest script from the Asian American theater canon<\/em>
\n2014-01-23 through 2014-01-26<\/p>\n

The Playwrights’ Center<\/a>
\n2301 East Franklin Avenue
\nMinneapolis, Minnesota 55406<\/p>\n

“Purple Cloud” by Jessica Huang<\/strong>
\nFriday, 2014-01-24, 19:30 CST (Local Time)<\/p>\n

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Weaving together the stories of Lee, a Shanghai<\/a>-born man who immigrates to America during World War II<\/a>, his son, a first generation Asian American, and his granddaughter whose mixed-race identity strains her relationship with her conformist father. The three family members\u2019 stories are accompanied by a quartet of Chinese Stones, brought to America in pockets and soles of shoes, who transform slowly as the Huang family acculturates over generations.<\/p>\n

Jessica Huang (Elysium Blues<\/em>) is a multi-racial, Minneapolis<\/a>-based playwright, co-founder, producer and core writer of the Unit Collective, and a 2012 recipient of a Many Voices Fellowship at the Playwrights\u2019 Center. Various stages of her work have been produced locally at the Minnesota Fringe Festival, Pillsbury House Theatre, RedEye, and Pangea World Theater, and nationally at 2nd Generation in New York City, the University of Missouri-Columbia, the Kennedy Center and the Source Festival in Washington DC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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