America Dreaming
Original Music by Tan Dun
In America Dreaming, Yuki, a young Asian American woman, suddenly finds herself time traveling through a fictitious version of American history. She travels to the timeS of the Great Depression, WWII, the Vietnam War, the Korean War, and the future. Each period contains false memories, historical inaccuracies, and fragments of truth. She is returned to the present when she finds something like her identity.
Cast Requirements
4 men (1 Asian, 3 Caucasian)
3 women (2 Asian, 1 Caucasian)
Set Description
Flexible
Publisher
Global Foreigners
Seagull Books
Press
“As shown in America Dreaming, the impressionistic music-theater piece exploring the collision of Eastern and Western cultures, that notion of happily-ever-after assimilation was always a myth.”
—New York Times
Production and Development History
Commissioned: Music-Theatre Group.
Co-Production: Vineyard Theatre with MTG (1995).