Events"19 Wentworth Alley, Chinatown" by Eugenie Chan
December 14, 2015 — December 02, 2015
San Francisco, CA
NEW PLAY READING! Yale alum Eugenie Chan layers original material with fragments of actual family documents to explore the world Chan’s Grandfather -- caught between medical studies and his membership in a prostitution tong -- knew. Drawing on the history of her grandfather, a man caught between his studies as a Stanford medical student and his membership in a Chinatown gambling and prostitution guild in early 1900s San Francisco, Eugenie Chan layers original material with fragments of actual family documents to explore the world Chan’s Grandfather knew — and made — one of high hopes and hard choices. A new vaudeville. Directed by Jessica Heidt Dramaturgy by Laura Brueckner With Bonnie Akimoto, Monica Ho, Lisa Hori-Garcia, Arthur Keng, John Patrick Moore, Beverly Sotelo, Jomar Tagatac and clarinetist Wes Asakawa Z Below 470 Florida St between 17th & and Mariposa San Francisco CA 94110 7 PM, December 14, 2015 $10 suggested donation to Z Below (but absolutely no one turned away at the door) https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe.c/10047647
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