Outside People
by Zayd Dohrn

Name: Outside People
Brand: Zayd Dohrn
SKU: 9780573700644
Rating: 2.5 (2 reviews)

Outside People Book Cover — Outside People Cover

Highlights

Female

Male

105 minsPresent DayRole(s) for Asian Actor(s)Unit Set/Multiple SettingsContemporary Costumes/Street ClothesComedy

Synopsis

A dark, comic look at China/U.S.

relations – economic, political, and sexual.

In modern-day Beijing, a young American guy falls for a Chinese girl and then struggles to understand where she's coming from.

A play about loneliness, culture shock, language and trying to make connections across borders.

Press Reviews

"A funny, tightly written dramedy. Speaks clearly about the matters that unite us as well as those that keep us apart."
— Roma Torre, NY1

"An engaging new comedy of cultural misunderstanding… Dohrn deftly establishes the ways that tone – the elusive key for westerners struggling to master Mandarin – can take precedence over meaning… An affecting study of how love is, at heart, the struggle to establish a common language."
— Brendan Lemon, Financial Times

"Dohrn throws bold elbows, parcels out his characters' epiphanies sparingly, and touches down on a satisfyingly grim note."
— Scott Brown, New York Magazine