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CHRISTOPHER CHEN |
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Nationality: Asian American Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: AO International |
Christopher Chens plays include INTO THE NUMBERS, THE WINDOW AGE, ANOMIENAULIS, and LU SHEN THE MAD. His work has been produced and developed by Central Works Theatre Ensemble, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Beijing Fringe Festival, The Lark, hotINK Festival, Theatre Mu, Silk Road Theatre Project, Fluid Motion, Asian American Theater Company, and Crowded Fire, where he is currently developing his newest play THE HUNDRED FLOWERS PROJECTS, about Mao Tse-Tung. Honors include a Ford Foundation Emerging Writer of Color Grant, 2nd Place in the Belarus Free Theater International Competition of Modern Dramaturgy for Into the Numbers, Jerome Finalist, and Princess Grace and ONeill Conference Semi-Finalist. He is currently a Resident Playwright at the Playwrights Foundation, a member of the Magic Theatre Artists Lab and Just Theater New Play Lab, and is co-director of the Asian American Theater Company New Works Incubator Program. He is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley, and holds an M.F.A. in Playwriting from S.F. State. He has been translated into Russian and Chinese.
Plays by Christopher Chen
Anomienaulis | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bay Area Playwrights | 2009 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96079 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
Synopsis: | An absurdist take on Iphigenia at Aulis, set in a realm of lost childhood. A restless army entertains itself with video games and sitcoms, while waiting for the wind that would carry their ships to war. In this existential space of paralysing doubt, indecision, and anticlimax, a march toward unstoppable violence grows inevitable. -- | |||||
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Into the Numbers | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mu Performing | 2007 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #71108 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | In 2004, Iris Chang, famed author of The Rape of Nanking, a chronicle of one of the worst atrocities of the 20th Century, committed suicide at the age of 36. Structured as an interview gone awry, Into the Numbers explores the philosophical and psychological implications of researching genocide, as well as the toll media saturation plays in the process. What begins as a standard lecture and interview soon descends into a surreal nightmare. Ghosts from Changs research appear and characters shift personas, as the celebrated author tries desperately to find order in the midst of mental chaos. | |||||
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Lu Shen The Mad | ||
| 1st Produced: | Thick House, San Francisco | 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101789 | |||
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Notes: | Based on a Chinese translation of the Greek play "Herakles" | |||||
Synopsis: | Lu Shen, the legendary Chinese warrior travels through time all the while fighting an urge to kill his wife. He finds himself as an actor in a badly translated Chinese play; applying for the post of a janitor and an investor in cyber markets | |||||
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Maya | ||
| 1st Produced: | Aatc | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #71109 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Three people find themselves in a strange, Kafka-esque prison with no recollection of how they got there or who they are. These sufferers of amnesia slowly piece together their shared past shaped by lost love and a brutal war. But soon they find that their memories diverge, and things are further complicated by their captor, a mad doctor, who casts doubts on what little they have to go on. His own agenda reveals a shocking take on spirituality. Maya is at once a political allegory and philosophical treatise that is brought to life by intense emotions and poetic language. At its core, it deals with the nature of the soul. Its surreal, neutral setting is inspired by Samuel Beckett and Sarah Kane. Its mood and language are inspired by Virginia Woolf and Kazuo Ishiguro. | |||||
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Mishima Speaks To Beauty | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | One4All Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101790 | |||
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Synopsis: | On November 25 Yukio Mishima with a band of his own soldiers broke into an army compound and took a general hostage. He made a patriotic speak to the soldiers and then disembowelled himself | |||||
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Radio Nostalgia In The Kingdom Of Rath | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2011 | ||||
Company: | Just Theater | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126542 | |||
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Window Age, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Central Works, Berkeley | 2009 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96080 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | 1920's, England in the aftermath of World War 1. The conception of the human mind is being reframed by the Modernist Movement in art and literature, the burgeoning field of psychoanalysis, and the emergence of a strange new affliction termed War Neurosis ( shell shock ). A Modernist writer, not unlike Virginia Woolf, and her troubled war veteran husband receive a visit from an old friend, a psychoanalyst not unlike Sigmund Freud. Over the course of the play, the single drawing room scene they share is replayed three times, each from a different perspective of the unconscious. Each replay takes us further down into a kaleidoscopic inner universe, where windows upon windows reveal hidden fears, desires, and doubts about the the very nature of reality. | |||||
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