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Joanna Chan

JOANNA CHAN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Joanna Chan's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of Joanna Chan's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Chalk Circle, The         Crown Ourselves With Roses         Empress Of China, The         Forbidden City West         In the Silence Of the Heart         Laughing In the Wind         Luo Shen (Legend Of the River Luo)         One Family, One Child, One Door         Ren Ah, Ren (You, O You Humans)         Soongs, The: By Dreams Betrayed         Story Of Dou=e Snow In June, The

Chalk Circle, The

Synopsis:
Yangtze Repertory theatre presents a modern theater version of the Chalk Circle, a Yuan dynasty masterpiece by Li QianFu, adapted and directed by Joanna Chan employing Chinese Opera elements. the Chalk Circle is the saga of a beautiful girl named Begonia Zhang, who is sold into a house of prostitution by her impoverished family after her father's death. there she is befriended by Official Ma, a wealthy and childless tax collector, who takes her into his house as his concubine. She bears him a son, Shou Lang, but earns the jealousy of his wife, Mistress Ma. aiming to remove Begonia as a threat of inheriting the Ma Familys fortune, she accuses Begonia of adultery and poisons Official Ma. She then blames Begonia for the crime and claims to a court that Shou Lang is her own child. as Begonia is about to be executed, she is rescued by Judge Bao, who discovers Mistress Ma's deception with a wisdom worthy of King Solomon. the play will be performed in english, Mandarin and Cantonese with Chinese and english supertitles.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
adapted from work by Li QianFu

1st Produced:
Theater for the New City
155 First avenue, New York, NY 10009    03 May 2012

Organisations:
Yangtze Repertory Theatre of America

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Crown Ourselves With Roses

Synopsis:
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Notes:
translated from her own play

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1st Published:
Contained in: "the Columbia anthology of Modern Chinese Drama" published by Columbia University Press 2010   978-0231145701

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

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Empress Of China, The

Synopsis:
the empress of China is based on the arrival of the first American trading vessel in Canton in 1784. aboard the empress of China was the historical figure Samuel Shaw, a Revolutionary War officer, businessman, and diplomat. Playwright Joanna Chan creates a relationship between Shaw and Purple Lotus, a fictional character of great beauty and charm, who captures the American's heart. Through their relationship the play explores the profound differences in the way the central characters and their two societies viewed the world and their places in it. all this takes place as the Americans, fresh from their own revolution, are desperately trying to establish trade with China. the play offers historical insights into the Chinese ways and American efforts to establish the new country's place in the world. the bilingual production is performed with Mandarin and english supertitles..
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theater for the New City
155 First avenue, New York, NY 10009    03 Jun 2011

Organisations:
Yangtze Repertory Theatre of America

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

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Forbidden City West

Synopsis:
Forbidden City West is an original musical on 100 years of Chinese-American experience through the life and times of legendary entertainer Jadin Wong. In 1940, she was featured in Life magazine as the exotic star of the night club, the Forbidden City, in San Francisco. and into her 90s, she still headed her own talent agency for Asian performing artists in upper Manhattan. Married to the Broadway producer Eddie Dowling in the 1960s, Wong was dubbed 'the most photographed Chinese girl in the U.S.', her black and white photos with such Hollywood luminaries as Welles, Crosby, Powell, Hope, etc. graced numerous pages. Wong helped to create and popularize the 'dragon lady' image of the Chinese female in a long, tight gown, slits thigh-high, and chopsticks in her hair-an image that became a fixation in the public imagination in the West. Wong's colorful life includes: jumping off a small military plane over the Black Forest, being found and brought to safety a few hours later, then going on stage to entertain 2,000 American G.I.s in austria; running away from home at age 14 to take dancing lessons; creating the 'dragon lady' image with the aid of her english dance teacher; and trying to restart her career as a stand-up comic. the fiesty young woman proved to be a peerless survivor, outlasting three husbands and braving the male-orientated Chinese community that condemned and ignored her, continuing to dispense advice today to scores of young Asian actors who are gradually gaining visibility. the musical is intercut with the Dramantic changes in China as well as some of the refelctions and dreams of living here in the US
- press release

Notes:
book And lyrics by Joanna Chan; music by Gregory Frederick

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Yangtze Rep

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

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In the Silence Of the Heart

Synopsis:
In the Silence Of the Heart, set on Labor Day weekend in 2008, tells of a fictional African American family that has adopted a young Chinese boy ten years earlier. the boy's Father had served in the same firehouse as the Father of the black family, but was killed on duty. Soon after the tragic incident, the Father of the black family left home and had not been seen again until his sudden appearance on this holiday weekend. the ensuing revelation and conflict throw the tightly knit family into turmoil. the production's multi-ethnic cast, headed by African-Americans, includes actors from Japan, China, and Vietnam. It is performed in english and Spanish, with Chinese subtitles.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Yangtze Repertory Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
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Laughing In the Wind

Synopsis:
the play is a martial Arts epic with a fighting/kicking ensemble of 18 actors playing 26 speaking parts. It is based on a story about friendship and love, deception and betrayal, ambition and lust for power which was originally titled Xiao ao Jiang Hu when it was published in 1967, and has been variously translated as "the Smiling, Proud Wanderer" and "State of Divinity." In the story, various parties are vying to recover a scroll that contains a powerful martial Arts technique that can propel the owner to premiere leadership, but are eventually outdone by a young lad, Little Fox, who is devoid of all ambitions. the story deals with Little Fox's journey: his development as a swordsman and his witnessing the various intrigues which take place.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Yangtze Repertory Theatre

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Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Luo Shen (Legend Of the River Luo)

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Yangtze Repertory Theatre of America

1st Published:
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Music:
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One Family, One Child, One Door

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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Yangtze Rep    2002

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Music:
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Ren Ah, Ren (You, O You Humans)

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Dai HouYing, Adapted by Joanna Chan

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Organisations:
Yangtze Repertory Theatre of America

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Soongs, The: By Dreams Betrayed

Synopsis:
Before the Shah, before the Marcoses, there were the Soongs. . .
- http://www.aatrevue.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Yangtze Rep    2003

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Story Of Dou=e Snow In June, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Composer: Peter Gingerich

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Yangtz Repertory Theater of America

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
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