Friday, May 06 07:30pm
Theater for the New City (Joyce & Seward Johnson Theater)
155 First Ave.,(bet. 9th and 10th Streets), New York, NY
Yangtze Repertory Theatre of America presents “Midnight Kill,”
written, directed and designed by K.K. Wong.
The play is a drama set among the teachers of a small elementary school in a rural farming village in northern China during the early 1970s, when China’s Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution was at its height. Under the country’s autocratic rule, extreme forms of collectivism, asceticism, and class warfare ran rampant in every corner of the country. In this crucible of passion, ideology and deprivation, a married woman has been having an affair with a young teacher. The play opens with the scene where the teacher has already killed the woman. The rest of the play traces their relationship as a flash back, eventually revealing the motivations behind the killing.
The play is performed in Mandarin Chinese, with English Subtitles.
Tickets: $20 general admission, $15 seniors & students.
Wednesdays: pay what you can.
(available day of performance at box office only, advance sales regular price)
For tickets and showtimes visit:
http://www.yangtze-rep-theatre.org/