{"id":50759,"date":"2015-02-03T08:04:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T12:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=50759"},"modified":"2015-01-29T23:55:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T03:55:25","slug":"the-world-of-extreme-happiness-world-premiere-play-by-frances-ya-chu-cowhig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=50759","title":{"rendered":"The World Of Extreme Happiness World premiere play by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>02\/03\/2015<br \/>\nManhattan Theatre Club- New York City Center I<br \/>\n131 West 55th Street (between 6th &amp; 7th Aves)<br \/>\n<!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/\u87a2\u5e55\u5feb\u7167-2015-01-29-\u4e0b\u53483.07.35.png\" rel=\"lightbox[50759]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50760\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/\u87a2\u5e55\u5feb\u7167-2015-01-29-\u4e0b\u53483.07.35.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"373\" height=\"353\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nChina is changing. So is she.<br \/>\nUnwanted from the moment she\u2019s born, Sunny is determined to escape her life in rural China and forge a new identity in the city. As na\u00efve as she is ambitious, Sunny views her new job in a grueling factory as a stepping stone to untold opportunities. When fate casts her as a company spokeswoman at a sham PR event, Sunny\u2019s bright outlook starts to unravel in a series of harrowing and darkly comic events, as she begins to question a system enriching itself by destroying its own people.<\/p>\n<p>Critically acclaimed when it debuted in a workshop production at London\u2019s National Theatre, THE WORLD OF EXTREME HAPPINESS makes its world premiere in a co-production with Chicago\u2019s Goodman Theatre. \u201cHard-hitting and bruisingly funny\u201d (Time Out London), this epic new drama by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig is as fierce and unflinching as the world it examines. Eric Ting directs.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theworldofextremehappiness.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.theworldofextremehappiness.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>02\/03\/2015 Manhattan Theatre Club- New York City Center I 131 West 55th Street (between 6th &amp; 7th Aves)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50763,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50759\/revisions\/50763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}