{"id":29319,"date":"2013-05-15T14:01:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T18:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=29319"},"modified":"2013-05-15T14:01:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T18:01:49","slug":"the-new-york-premiere-of-the-golden-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=29319","title":{"rendered":"THE NEW YORK PREMIERE OF THE GOLDEN DRAGON"},"content":{"rendered":"

The OBIE Award-winning The Play Company (WORKING ON A SPECIAL DAY, INVASION!) proudly presents the New York premiere of THE GOLDEN DRAGON, written by German playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig and translated by David Tushingham. THE GOLDEN DRAGON reunites Mr. Schimmelpfennig, one of Europe’s most-produced and renowned playwrights, with The Play Company, who produced the New York premiere of his play ARABIAN NIGHT (also translated by Mr. Tushingham) in 2006. THE GOLDEN DRAGON is directed by Ed Sylvanus Iskandar (THESE SEVEN SICKNESSES, RESTORATION COMEDY), renowned for his immersive, whimsical invite-only theater company, Exit, Pursued by a Bear. THE GOLDEN DRAGON will be performed at The New Ohio Theatre (154 Christopher Street in the West Village) from Wednesday, May 8th through Sunday, June 9th, 2013. The press opening is scheduled for Wednesday, May 15th.<\/p>\n

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In a tiny Asian take-out, a kitchen worker\u2019s toothache leads to a botched extraction, blazing a trail of intrigue through the dining room and out into the world beyond. Darkly hilarious and sweepingly global, THE GOLDEN DRAGON paints a surreal and haunting portrait of migration and human connection as five actors create a kaleidoscope of characters – from the restaurant\u2019s employees, patrons and neighbors, to the insects at their feet.<\/p>\n

The cast of THE GOLDEN DRAGON features Noah Galvin (OUR TOWN at Barrow St. Theatre, YOSEMITE at Rattlestick, BURNT PART BOYS at Playwrights Horizons), Peter Kim (THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE on Broadway, AMERICAN HWANGAP for PlayCo\/Ma-Yi, DURANGO at The Public and regionally), K.K. Moggie (GRACE at MCC, THE GOLDEN DRAGON at Studio Theatre, DC), Stephen Duff Webber (the SITI Company’s RADIO MACBETH, WAR OF THE WORLDS, etc.), and Welker White (SEARCH AND DESTROY, Goodfellas).<\/p>\n

THE GOLDEN DRAGON has set design by Mimi Lien, costume design by Loren Shaw, lighting design by Nicole Pearce, and sound design by Katie Down. Erica Fae is the movement director.
\nRoland Schimmelpfennig’s work has been translated into more than 20 languages. He made his New York debut in 2006 with a production of his play ARABIAN NIGHT, produced by The Play Company. He first worked as a freelance journalist and author in Istanbul before training as a theatre director at Munich\u2019s Otto Falkenberg School in 1990. He then became an assistant director and later a member of the artistic team at Munich\u2019s Kammerspiele. Mr. Schimmelpfennig was dramaturg and author at the Berlin Schaub\u00fchne and then resident playwright at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. In 2010, Schimmelpfennig was awarded the M\u00fchlheimer Dramatists Award for his play THE GOLDEN DRAGON. The play premiered at the Burgtheater Vienna last season and has since received more than 30 productions worldwide. He just finished a commission for the Tokyo National Theater and the Burgtheater in Vienna. Schimmelpfennig is the recipient of the highest Playwriting Award in Germany, the Else-Lasker-Sch\u00fcler-Prize, to honor his entire Oeuvre.<\/p>\n

An Off-Broadway company dedicated to advancing an international view of contemporary playwriting, The Play Company links NYC artists and audiences to a whole world of plays and places American work in a global context, creating unusual, ambitious work that reflects and responds to the issues and events that shape our time. The Play Company most recently presented (in collaboration with Mexico City-based Por Piedad Teatro) the U.S. premiere of WORKING ON A SPECIAL DAY, inspired by Ettore Scola’s Una Giornata Particolare. Other recent productions include the OBIE Award-winning U.S. premiere of Jonas Hassen Khemiri\u2019s INVASION! (Sweden), the New York premiere of Marius von Mayenburg\u2019s THE UGLY ONE (Germany), the American premiere of Toshiki Okada\u2019s ENJOY (Japan), and the world premiere of Eliza Clark\u2019s EDGEWISE (U.S.). Past productions include the NY premiere of Lloyd Suh\u2019s AMERICAN HWANGAP (U.S.), the NY premiere of Roland Schimmelpfennig’s ARABIAN NIGHT (Germany); the U.S. premieres of Przemyslaw Wojcieszek’s MADE IN POLAND (Poland); Robert Farquhar’s BAD JAZZ (England), Simon Farquhar\u2019s RAINBOW KISS (Scotland), Vijay Tendulkar’s SAKHARAM BINDER (India); Yoji Sakate’s THE ATTIC (Japan); and The Presnyakov Brothers’ TERRORISM (Russia); as well as world premieres of the American plays SMASHING by Brooke Berman and HIGH DIVE by Leslie Ayvazian. The Play Company received a 2007 OBIE Award for its \u201cunique contribution to the theatre community.\u201d PlayCo is under the guidance of Kate Loewald, Founding Producer, and Lauren Weigel, Executive Producer.<\/p>\n

THE GOLDEN DRAGON will be performed at The New Ohio Theatre (154 Christopher Street) from May 8 – June 9, 2013 as follows: Tue \u2013 Fri @7:30 pm, Sat @ 2:00 and 7:30 pm, and Sun @ 3:00 pm.
\nTickets to THE GOLDEN DRAGON are $30.00 general admission, $40.00 reserved seating (PlayCo Membership prices are available, as are $10 Student Rush tickets). Tickets can be purchased online through www.playco.org and by phone through OvationTix at 866-811-4111.<\/p>\n

For more information, please visit www.playco.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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