Pan Asian Repertory Theater
2012/13 36th Masterpiece
Season
Tisa Chang, Artistic Producing Director
PLAYS IN PROCESS Staged Readings
2012
November 16 at 7:00pm, November 17 at 3:00pm
November 16 at 7:00pm, November 17 at 3:00pm
at
520 8th Ave, Bruce Mitchell Room (between 36th & 37th
Streets)
3rd Floor
Suggested donation of $10
collected at the door for refreshments and Q&A
To RSVP please email info@panasianrep.org or call 212/868-4030
To RSVP please email info@panasianrep.org or call 212/868-4030
NO-NO BOY
By Ken Narasaki
Directed
By Ron Nakahara
Based on the book by John Okada, and set
in the aftermath of WWII as Japanese Americans return to the West Coast, the
play follows draft resister Ichiro Yamada after he is released from prison and STRUGGLES
TO COME TO TERMS WITH HIS CHOICES, while the rest of the community tries to
get back on its feet after a war that has uprooted them all.
Featuring: Don Castro, Kimiye
Corwin, Chris Doi, Bobby Foley, Wai Ching Ho, Dom Huynh, Glenn Kubota, Ian Wen,
Virginia Wing, Henry Yuk. Stage Manager:
Swaine Kaui
“NO-NO BOY by John Okada, first
published in 1957, is
something
more than a book; it’s one of those works of art that transcends its actual
form, becoming something much larger than just a novel…tackling the adaptation
of this seminal novel to the stage… feels a little like saying, ‘We’re working
on a stage adaptation of MOBY DICK; I think it’s going well!”
“NO-NO BOY is full of characters never
seen on any stage I’ve seen. Angry, self-destructive…wondering if
they’ll ever find the America that was once promised to
them. Ironically, their nihilism is part of what makes them so
vividly alive, proving that young people are the same in every generation –
there exists in every generation an entire spectrum of feeling,
and the darker hues of NO-NO BOY’s characters
are
ones not often seen in literature
about the Nisei.”
-Ken
Narasaki, playwright