Circus (or Mah-heih!)
Based on interviews with Chinese from different generations of immigration to the United States, this play explores what Chinese Americans desire in the performing arts. The immigrants are re-imagined as acrobats in the circus that is life in America.
Cast Requirements
4 men
5 women
Production and Development History
Staged reading: Self-Help for the Elderly, San Francisco (2009).
Commissioned by The San Francisco Foundation and Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund through support from The Wallace Foundation.