48 Mission Drift (2012)īrilliantly collapsing time and space, the Team’s dissection of US capitalism is one of the most theatrically ambitious shows of recent years. Lee continued to explore themes of prejudice and stereotype in works such as The Shipment and Straight White Men, but this finds her at her most scurrilous and original. (There’s also a very boring white couple.) An exquisitely uncomfortable exploration of bias, it also includes mimed suicides choreographed to Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas. Lee, a Korean-American artist, populated the stage with three women in traditional Korean dress and a fourth woman, Korean-American, who despises them. Wild, scorching and gleefully profane, Young Jean Lee’s early play is an Asian-American identity-politics comedy. 49 Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven (2006) And in its pre-Brexit deconstruction of Britain’s relationship with Europe, it feels chillingly prescient. Loathed and loved in equal measure, it has undoubtedly galvanised a new generation of directors inspired by continental European theatre. Simon Stephens’ detective yarn took audiences on a thrilling and disorientating trip across Europe, in a trilingual collaboration with German director Sebastian Nübling and Estonian designer Ene-Liis Semper. Few productions this century have divided opinion like Three Kingdoms.
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