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Fusebox Festival: Critics’ Picks #3
With her 2008 play “The Shipment,” Young Jean Lee made a bold move as a playwright.
A Korean American, Lee decided to challenge preconceived notions of race with a subversively funny and whip-smart show made up of short sketches that intelligently explore African American stereotypes and experiences as well as their history as entertainers for often largely white audiences. Declared radical and genius by New York critics, Lee — who was just awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship — goes beyond polemical identity politics and nudges toward a new creative consideration of race.
‘The Shipment’
When: 8 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday
Rollins Studio Theatre, Long Center
$24
www.fuseboxfestival.com
Photo by A.J. Zanyk.
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