Tuesday, June 07 09pm
Ensemble Studio Theatre
549 W 52nd St, New York, New York 10019
A DEAL- a reading of new play by Zhu Yi
Directed by John Giampietro
part of EST/Youngblood’s BLOODWORKS series
part of Ibsen International’s “New Text – New Stage II” Project
An Ivy League degree in art and an apartment in Manhattan – Like many new upper-middle-class Chinese families, Mr. and Mrs. Li are proud to give their only daughter a life they could only dream of, until… they realize the new life is turning her into a dangerous stranger.
A DEAL is a dark comedy that features a Chinese family’s home buying journey in New York. It reveals the ideological conflicts between the East and the West in contemporary society by tracking a little stream of the global cash flow. The story took place in Winter 2015, when Chinese families for the first time represented the largest group of overseas home buyers in the United States, and the USD/CNY exchange rate climbed from 6.31 to 6.59 within three months.
Free admission!
For more information visit: http://www.ensemblestudiotheatre.org/