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King of the Yees

  • Lauren Yee
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy
  • 3M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573707254

"Delightfully disorderly entertainment, as sprawling and silly as it is unexpectedly moving."

Los Angeles Times

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre
For nearly twenty years, playwright Lauren Yee's father, Larry, has been a driving force in the Yee Family Association, a seemingly obsolescent Chinese American man's club formed a hundred-and-fifty years ago in the wake of the Gold Rush and the building of the transcontinental railroad. But when her father goes missing, Lauren must plunge into the rabbit hole of San Francisco Chinatown and confront a world both foreign and familiar.

At once bitingly hilarious and heartbreakingly honest, King of the Yees is an epic joyride across cultural, national, and familiar borders that explores what it means to truly be a Yee.

REVIEWS:

"Delightfully disorderly entertainment, as sprawling and silly as it is unexpectedly moving."

 Los Angeles Times

"In case you weren't aware, this play is kind of a big deal."

 DC Metro Theater Arts

"An absolute masterpiece."

 Baltimore Outloud

  • Casting: 3M, 2F

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For nearly twenty years, playwright Lauren Yee's father, Larry, has been a driving force in the Yee Family Association, a seemingly obsolescent Chinese American man's club formed a hundred-and-fifty years ago in the wake of the Gold Rush and the building of the transcontinental railroad. But when her father goes missing, Lauren must plunge into the rabbit hole of San Francisco Chinatown and confront a world both foreign and familiar.

At once bitingly hilarious and heartbreakingly honest, King of the Yees is an epic joyride across cultural, national, and familiar borders that explores what it means to truly be a Yee.

$24.95