Marginal Sights: Staging the Chinese in America
James S. Moy
The Chinese
by Murray Schisgal
Synopsis
THE STORIES: THE CHINESE.
The scene is the Chinese laundry that is also home for the Lee family--father, mother and son, Chester.
The older Lees are quite obviously Asian while Chester (who is usually taken for Jewish) is not--but his questions as to
Press Reviews
"Produced on Broadway with Dr. Fish, this offbeat and wonderfully funny play deals with the plight of an apparently Caucasian young man whose parents are, just as apparently, Chinese. “…Terribly funny and not unwise, wonderfully theatrical and altogether grand."
— The New York Times
Publication
Publisher Dramatists Play Service
Year 1998
Binding Paperback
Pages 72
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822202073
ISBN-10 0822202077
The Chinese is a American comedy play written by Murray Schisgal and published by Dramatists Play Service (1998).
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