Now – Sunday, December 4

Tuesday-Friday @ 7:30pm/Saturday @ 2:00pm & 7:30pm/Sunday @ 3:00pm
Connelly Theater (220 East 4th St., betw. Aves. A & B)

About the Play and Playwright

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Carla Ching wrote and performed with pan-Asian performance troupe Peeling for a number of years. Her plays include TBA, Big Blind/Little Blind, The Sugar House at the Edge of the Wilderness, and Fast Company. Her work has been workshopped or produced by Ma-Yi Theater Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre (EST/Sloan Commission), The Lark Play Development Center, The Women’s Project, Desipina & Company, Vampire Cowboys, Red Fern Theater Company, Partial Comfort and others. 2008 Urban Artists Initiative Fellow, 2009/10 Teachers & Writers Collaborative Fellow, 2010/11 Lark Play Development Center Playwrights Workshop Fellow. Member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab and alum of the 2008-2010 Women’s Project Lab. TBA is published in Out of Time and Place. BA, Vassar College. MFA, New School for Drama. She is artistic director of 2g.

The Sugar House at the Edge of the Wilderness is a play with music and a live twitter feed about kids growing up fast, children raising children, and shifting notions of home. When their father dies suddenly and their mother goes on a grief pilgrimage, Chinese adoptees Greta and Han are sent to live with their ex-rockstar uncle and his young girlfriend. Wrestling with the wilds of New York and their grief, Greta gets in trouble with the law and put in a court mandated reform program and Han runs away to play music on the street. On the edge of the wilderness, Greta and Han must ask themselves: If I can’t go home, where do I go?

Creative Team

The Sugar House at the Edge of the Wilderness will feature Ali Ahn, Cindy Cheung, Bjorn DuPaty, Christopher Larkin, April Matthis, and David Spangler. The design team includes set by Clint Ramos, costumes by Theresa Squire, lighting by Japhy Weideman, sound by Shane Rettig, and video by Alex Koch & David Tenant.

For more info: http://mayi.publishpath.com/playing