Songs Of The Dragons Flying To Heaven at Studio Theatre

Songs Of The Dragons Flying To Heaven

Studio Theatre
1501 14th St. NW Washington

A coterie of Korean women smash conventions of Asian-identity to bits and toss them up like confetti in this violent, explosive and hilarious theatrical event by one of New York’s hottest downtown playwrights.

Thru - Oct 31, 2010

Wednesdays: 8:30pm

Thursdays: 8:30pm

Fridays: 8:30pm

Saturdays: 8:30pm

Sundays: 7:30pm

Show Type: Comedy/Drama

Running Time: 1hr; 30 mins with no intermission

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Songs Of The Dragons Flying To Heaven Reviews

Average Rating based on 6 reviews

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Washington Post - Highly Recommended

"...If you're going to be discomfited, harangued and quite possibly even dragged onto the stage, let it be by someone as scathingly mischievous as Young Jean Lee. Her wildly sardonic performance piece at Studio Theatre, "Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven," is a provocateur's funny, guns-blazing take on the utter banality of ethnic stereotypes and other cross-cultural outrages."

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- Peter Marks

Washington Examiner - Not Recommended

"...This production marks the first time one of Lee’s plays has been staged by a company other than her own New York-based troupe. Perhaps her work feels more lucid when she directs it herself using actors who’ve had a hand in the script, as is typically her method. But this version never decides on a tone and never, ever feels remotely as daring as its makers think it is. While the actors commit heroically to the material, this is a waste of their gifts. There’s nothing insightful here, unless you want to learn whether you’ll still laugh at jokes about how multilingual Asians pronounce “r” sounds in English, and whether you’ll then reflect upon your motives for doing so."

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- Chris Klimek

MetroWeekly - Recommended

"...It's for all these reasons that Lee fits so wonderfully into the program of Studio Theatre's 2ndStage, and why her Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven feels so much at home in this city where the element most guiding the conversation about race is the consistent and willful desire to not talk about race. Not because we are so comfortable with the racial and ethnic lines that sometimes divide us, but because we struggle so mightily to assure everyone that we are."

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- Tom Avila

WeLoveDC - Highly Recommended

"...Be prepared to have your prejudices rattled – not just the racial stereotypes, but your assumption of the role as an audience member as well. You will be addressed, you may be pulled on stage, you may sing along or be uncomfortably silent. This is experimental theater at its best – verbally confrontational and visually provocative. Your reaction may be conflicted. It should be."

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- Jenn Larsen

Washington City Paper - Somewhat Recommended

"...Certainly, especially for a satirical evening by experimental playwright Young Jean Lee that will mostly court laughter as it explodes Asian stereotypes and does its level best for far too long a running time to keep Studio’s largely white audience off-balance. Smiles are clearly the aim when chirpy Jiehae Park addresses the audience standup-style to ask a politically incorrect question: “Have you ever noticed how most Asian-American are brain-damaged from having grown up with Asian parents?” By the time she gets to a line about how some white guys “seem to like that retarded quality,” the audience is once again comfortable with the evening’s tone."

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- Bob Mondello

DCTheatreScene - Recommended

Korean-American playwright and critical darling Young Jean Lee has broken exciting new ground with Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven, her brash, slightly-uneven vision of Korean-American culture and racial politics in the United States.

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- Ben Demers

Songs Of The Dragons Flying To Heaven at Studio Theatre