410 [Gone] by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
4:00pm Saturday, July 25th

Directed by Ken Prestininzi, Carrie Kaplan, dramaturg

FRANCES YA-CHU COWHIG is a graduate of the Dell’Arte School of Physical Theater, Brown University, and the International School of Beijing. In May, she will receive her MFA in Writing from the Michener Center for Writers at UT Austin. Her play LIDLESS was recently selected by David Hare as the winner of the 2009 Yale Drama Series Award, and will be published by Yale University Press in 2010. Her work has been developed at the Playwright’s Center, and is soon to be developed at the Hedgebrook Women Playwrights Festival, the Kennedy Center, InterAct Theatre and Yale Rep. Her short story “Monkeys of the Sea” will be published by Glimmer Train in 2010.

410 [GONE]
A sister searches for her brother in the Chinese Land of the Dead, encountering a frenetic landscape where the Goddess of Mercy and the Monkey King reign, and Dance Dance Revolution summons the Soup of Forgetting. Juxtaposing the closet where the teen killed himself with his ancestral home beneath a mountain in Shandong Province, the play follows the siblings as the sister searches for meaning inside suicide and her brother tries to remember who he was whilst navigating the hijinks of the mythical beings.