In my latest theater review I discuss the contemporary resonances of The Bus Stop, an absurdist parody by Nobel-winning author Gao Xingjian being produced in New York for the first time since its publication in 1983. In the Theatre Han production at the Sanford Meisner Theatre, Xingjian's criticism of Chinese communism, its contradictions and inadequacies hint at similar anxities today for an audience in a capitalist country possibly (finally) contemplating socialism. Read the whole review here. (Photo Ho Chang)
Theatre Han's The Bus Stop
In my latest theater review I discuss the contemporary resonances of The Bus Stop, an absurdist parody by Nobel-winning author Gao Xingjian being produced in New York for the first time since its publication in 1983. In the Theatre Han production at the Sanford Meisner Theatre, Xingjian's criticism of Chinese communism, its contradictions and inadequacies hint at similar anxities today for an audience in a capitalist country possibly (finally) contemplating socialism. Read the whole review here. (Photo Ho Chang)
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