About This Show
The play that launched Chay Yew’s career as one of the premier chroniclers of the gay Asian experience, Porcelain is a poetic and poignant exploration of the deep loneliness of a boy who finds himself at home nowhere. Even in porn, he laments, all the men are white. A tale of first love gone horribly wrong, Porcelain spirals outward to include the commentary of the Asian community, the response of other gay men to the murder, and the ceaseless chatter of the tabloid press; and inward to reveal John’s memories of his lover and the haunting melodies of Carmen, another tale of passion-driven violence. Told with extraordinary lyricism, Porcelain is a modern-day exploration of an ancient dramatic question — what could drive a person to kill someone s/he loves.
There will be no shows on November 25 & 26.
