Jade Flowerpots and Bound Feet

Jade Flowerpots and Bound Feet is a 2001 play by American playwright David Henry Hwang.^[1] It deals with a Caucasian woman passing herself off as a minority for a book sell to a major publishing company. The play premiered as part of the production The Square, a night of short plays dealing with Asian American identity conceived by Lisa Peterson and Chay Yew. It started its run on November 5, 2001 at the Joseph Papp Public Theater. It was directed by Peterson.

It is published as part of 2004: The Best Ten-Minute Plays for Two Actors by Smith and Kraus.

References

↑ http://www.muperformingarts.org/production/new-directions-festival-2/

Works by David Henry Hwang

Full-length plays	FOB (1980) Family Devotions (1981) Rich Relations (1986) M. Butterfly (1988) Face Value (1993) Golden Child (1996) Peer Gynt (1998, with Stephan Muller; from Ibsen) Tibet Through the Red Box (2004, from Sis) Yellow Face (2007) Chinglish (2011)

Short plays	The Dance and the Railroad (1981) The House of Sleeping Beauties (1983, from Kawabata) The Sound of a Voice (1983) As the Crow Flies (1986) Bondage (1992) Trying to Find Chinatown (1996) Bang Kok (1996) Merchandising (1999) Jade Flowerpots and Bound Feet (2001) The Great Helmsman (2007) A Very DNA Reunion (2010)

Film/television	Blind Alleys (1985, with Kimball) M. Butterfly (1993) Golden Gate (1994) The Lost Empire (2001) Possession (2002, with Jones and LaBute, from Byatt)

Music theatre	1000 Airplanes on the Roof (1988, with Glass and Sirlin) The Voyage (1992, with Glass) The Silver River (1997, with Sheng) Aida (2000, with Woolverton & Falls, John and Rice, from Verdi) Flower Drum Song (2001, with Rodgers and Hammerstein, from Fields, Hammerstein, and Lee) Ainadamar (2003, with Golijov) The Sound of a Voice (2003, with Glass) Tarzan (2006, with Collins, from Burroughs) Alice in Wonderland (2007, with Chin, from Carroll) The Fly (2008, with Shore)

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