The Sugar House at the Edge of the Wilderness
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 15, 2011
Closed Dec 4, 2011
Opened Nov 15, 2011
Closed Dec 4, 2011
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The Sugar House at the Edge of the Wilderness is Carla Ching's fractured adaptation of the Brothers Grimm's classic fairy tale Hansel and Gretel about today's constantly shifting notions of family, home, parenthood and children.
When their father dies suddenly and their mother goes on a grief pilgrimage, Chinese adoptees Greta and Han are sent to live with their ex-rockstar uncle and his young girlfriend. Wrestling with the wilds of New York and their grief, Greta gets in trouble with the law and put in a court mandated reform program and Han runs away to play music on the street. On the edge of the wilderness, Greta and Han must ask themselves: If I can't go home, where do I go? A play with music and a live twitter feed about kids growing up fast, children raising children, and shifting notions of home.
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In her excellent new work, The Sugar House at the Edge of the Wilderness, now being presented by the Ma-Yi Theatre Company at the Connelly Theatre, playwright Carla Ching updates Hansel and Gretel by reinventing the Witch as Barbara ("Baba") Yaga, a reform school director who seems to have lifted her methodology from the Nurse Ratched rulebook: Play nice, or suffer the consequences.
Into Baba's orbit -- played by Cindy Cheung with cold efficiency masquerading as professionalism -- a defiant new enrollee awaits: the hoodie-shrouded and aggressively slumped 17-year-old Greta (Ali Ahn). She is in juvie for setting fire to her uncle's East Village apartment, where she and her 16-year-old brot[...]