#aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei
Howard Brenton
Caught
by Christopher Chen
Synopsis
THE STORY: An art gallery hosts a retrospective of the work of a legendary Chinese dissident artist who was imprisoned in a Chinese detention center for a single work of art.
Recently profiled in The New Yorker , the artist himself is present, and shares with patrons the details of an ordeal that defies belief.
A labyrinthine exploration of truth, art, social justice, and cultural appropriation, where nothing is as it first appears.
Press Reviews
"Winner of a 2017 Obie Award for Playwriting. “…[an] intricately constructed, unrelentingly destabilizing puzzle of a play about the anatomy of truth and the provocative power of illusion…” —The New York Times. “…boundary-pushing…Chen gleefully pokes fun at the myriad fallacies that presently reign over American art and media: the sanctity of identity, the disdain for ‘appropriation,’ and the belief that journalists can and should report a perfectly objective truth.” —TheaterMania. “…one of the smartest, most cynical, heart-wrenching, brain-teasing comedies I’ve seen in a long while…The only truth this play has to offer is that truth is unknowable…a clever, highly theatrical comedy, a spectacular con."
— Philadelphia Inquirer
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Caught is a play written by Christopher Chen and published by Dramatists Play Service .
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