Porcelain and a Language of Their Own

Banned in his native Singapore, award-winning playwright Chay Yew has been hailed as a promising new voice in American theater by Time magazine. With these two powerful, provocative plays, Yew brings his startling and poetic voice to America`s stages, exploring the battlegrounds of race and sexuality. A winner of the London Fringe Award for Best Play Porcelain dissects a young man`s crime of passion through a prism of conflicting voices: newscasts, flashbacks, and his own recollections to a prison psychiatrist. A Language of Their Own is a searching meditation on the nature of love and relationships as four men--three Asian and one white--come together and drift apart in a series of interconnecting stories. A critical and popular success and New York`s Public Theater, it won the GLAAD Media Award for Best Play. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.