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Nov 17, 2022 · November 17, 2022 – January 1, 2023. An Atlantic commissioned play by Guggenheim fellow Lloyd Suh ( The Chinese Lady) directed by Obie Award winner Eric Ting ( We Are Proud to Present… ). More Info. An intimate epic that follows an unlikely family’s journey from rural Taishan to the wild west of California in the wake of the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Dec 5, 2022 · Early 20th-century San Francisco and Guangdong, China, overlap in Lloyd Suh’s artful examination of the emotional price of immigration.
- Alexis Soloski
By Lloyd Suh. Directed by Ralph B. Peña. 2023 Pulitzer Prize Finalist. In the wake of the Chinese Exclusion Act, an unlikely family carries invented biographies and poems of longing on an arduous journey from rural Taishan to Angel Island Detention Center, in hopes of landing in San Francisco.
Dec 21, 2022 · His latest, “The Far Country,” opens at Angel Island, the notorious checkpoint off the coast of San Francisco, and explores lives fractured by the Chinese Exclusion Act, a racist policy that...
Dec 5, 2022 · In just over two hours, Suh succinctly and humorously covers 21 years, two continents, two interrogations and two obscenely expensive trans-Pacific crossings from Taishan to San Francisco.
May 8, 2024 · Lloyd Suh’s “The Far Country” is a talky, low-key drama about major life changes, given grand visual splendor in a finely designed production at Yale Repertory Theater through May...
Mar 14, 2024 · Lloyd Suh’s “The Far Country,” a Pulitzer Prize finalist that opened Wednesday, March 13, at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, traces the double-edged sword of immigration. It’s both...
