Yohen
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 18, 2006
Closed Nov 5, 2006
Opened Oct 18, 2006
Closed Nov 5, 2006
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http://www.panasianrep.org
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Philip Kan Gotanda's Yohen begins decades after the marriage of James and Sumi following WWII. They start to question the shape and function of their marriage, but the answers that emerge are not at all what they expected. Seret Scott directs.
The matinee performance on Saturday November 4 is at 2:00pm.
School Matinees
11:00AM on Tuesday Oct 24, Wednesday Oct 25 & Thursday Nov 2
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The word "yohen" is a Japanese term that describes how an accident in the pottery firing process creates discoloration and an unintended shape in certain pots. While some people are inclined to discard such works, deeming them ugly, to others they have a certain strange beauty. Philip Kan Gotanda's two-hander Yohen, uses this phenomenon as a brilliant metaphor for an interracial marriage (Japanese and African-American) that may or may not be worth keeping. Ably directed by Seret Scott, the 80-minute play is more nuanced and developed than many works twice its length.
The play is set in 1986, in Gardena, California, where Sumi (Dian Kobayashi) asks her husband of 30 years, James (David Fon[...]