Outside People
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 10, 2012
Closed Jan 29, 2012
Opened Jan 10, 2012
Closed Jan 29, 2012
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Set in modern-day Beijing, Outside People, Zayd Dohrn's darkly comic new play is the story of a young American man, Malcolm (Dellapina) who falls in love with a young Chinese woman, Xiao Mei (Li). But as his eyes open to the subtle social, political and economic forces that inform their relationship, he must confront his complex place in this foreign culture, the friendship that brought him there, and his own deepest fears and desires.
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It's inevitable that Zayd Dohrn's engaging but imperfect play, Outside People, making its world premiere at the Vineyard Theatre, will be compared to David Henry Hwang's Chinglish, currently on Broadway.
Both works are set in China, with a combination of English and Mandarin spoken. In both, a white American man has to navigate the complexity of business relationships -- where the concept of "guanxi" (roughly translated as "connections") is of primary importance -- as well as romantic possibilities in which difficulties in communication cause some rather fundamental misunderstandings. But whereas Hwang's play is an enjoyable comedy, Dohrn's is more of a melodrama that sometimes strains cr[...]