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Update #5: Thank you so much - we did it!
Thank you so much for helping us reach a seemingly impossible goal. We moved that mountain together!
Rehearsals are starting in earnest tomorrow and all the pieces are just about there. We totally wouldn't be able to produce Genny Lim's wonderful play - for free! outdoors! in Chinatown! - without your support. I can't tell you how much it means to me. I hope you'll check in every so often on our blog to see what you're helping to create. http://directarts.blogspot.com
For your kickstarter awards, please email to Nancy Gao at nancy.m.gao@gmail.com :
1. How we should credit you (proper spelling of your name as you wish it to appear on the playbill)
2. Your address so we can send you your lovely gifts
Many many thanks for helping us journey to the West!
Love,
Victoria
917-941-7926
www.directarts.org
Update #4: Video of our first kuaiban workshop
Yesterday, we gave Hansel Tan, who is playing Lum, his first lesson in kuaiban. It was pretty exciting - we LOVE Mr. Zhao - oh it be wonderful to take him with us, but alas, he is unavailable (and I don't know if we can afford it, sigh). Check out the youtube video of the lesson and learn more about Hansel on our blog http://directarts.blogspot.com/2010/08/adopt-hansel-plus-adventures-in-obscure.html
We've come SO far from the beginning of our fundraising efforts - 29 supporters, wow! - but we have only 3 more days and still need about $2,700 to meet our goal... I'm looking around for someone to match our pledges since we are just about halfway there. Know anyone? Have any ideas? Email me!
Thanks once again for helping in this momentous production of Genny Lim's wonderful play.
Victoria
victoria@directarts.org
Update #3: Video is online at kickstarter!
Hello,
Just a quick note that a video I created from the workshop last year is up on the kickstarter page!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/34891238/paper-angels-in-san-francisco
Now you can see what you are supporting. Thanks so much and I would welcome any comments.
All the best,
Victoria
Update #2: Breaking news... plus inspirations for the play
Very exciting development! Kitty Mei-Mei Chen, who 30 years ago played Ku Ling in the original New York City production of the play, is set to play Chin Moo opposite Obie Award winner Jojo Gonzalez.
Kitty Mei-Mei Chen has appeared on television’s Law & Order, All My Children, As the World Turns, and Sesame Street (as Big Bird's first teacher!). Her stage appearances include LaMama ETC, Pan Asian Rep, The O'Neill Playwrights Conference and the Open Space Theatre. In the 1990s, Kitty began to concentrate on writing and received an NEA Fellowship for her play, Eating Chicken Feet. Her most recent play, Rosa Loses Her Face, was poesented at Queens Theatre in the Park in 2009.
And if you have some curiosity on the production of PAPER ANGELS, I'm adding to the blog some of my inspirations. One interesting folk tradition that I'm planning to explore is shuo-chang or sometimes it's called kuai ban shu. Originally from the Shandong province, it's an ancient Chinese recitative accompanied by the beat of bamboo clappers. See more about this intriguing little-known art form including a video of a kuai ban shu master in action at http://directarts.blogspot.com/2010/08/100-year-old-hip-hop-chop-socky.html
On behalf of everyone involved in PAPER ANGELS, thanks so much for your support!
--Victoria
Update #1: Adopt an Actor
Adopt Max Carpenter!
Max Carpenter is a young actor who is currently attending NYU. You may remember him from our Take Two reading of Peter Shaffer's THE ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN. Despite his lovable nature, he will be playing Henderson in PAPER ANGELS.
Find out more about Max on our blog!
http://directarts.blogspot.com/2010/08/adopt-max.html
--V
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Direct Arts is an intercultural company dedicated to producing and promoting plays and films that explore the intersection between cultures. By producing and promoting work that is not just multi-cultural, but inter-cultural, Direct Arts seeks to challenge the ghettoization of minorities in mainstream media and develop greater public awareness of a substantial body of plays and films that holds a more truthful mirror to New York City, America and the world.
Direct Arts made its theatrical debut in 2008 with a short play at P.S. 122 and currently produces a monthly double bill of theater and film called Take Two. Other current projects include a documentary on Taiwanese independence, ALMOST HOME: TAIWAN. Direct Arts productions have been supported by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Puffin Foundation and the Asian American Arts Alliance.
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