The House of Sleeping Beauties
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Written by | David Henry Hwang |
Date premiered | November 6, 1983 |
Place premiered | Joseph Papp Public Theater |
Original language | English |
The House of Sleeping Beauties is a 1983 play by American playwright David Henry Hwang. Hwang's fourth play, it is an adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata's novella House of the Sleeping Beauties. The play depicts Kawabata and how he might have come to have written the novella. The play was first produced as part of the production Sound and Beauty on November 6, 1983 Off-Broadway at the Joseph Papp Public Theater.[1] It was directed by John Lone, with Victor Wong in the cast.
It is published as part of Trying to Find Chinatown: The Selected Plays by Theatre Communications Group.[2] and also in an acting edition published by Dramatists Play Service.[3]
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Works by David Henry Hwang
- FOB (1980)
- Family Devotions (1981)
- Rich Relations (1986)
- M. Butterfly (1988)
- Face Value (1993)
- Golden Child (1996)
- Peer Gynt (1998)
- Tibet Through the Red Box (2004)
- Yellow Face (2007)
- Chinglish (2011)
- Kung Fu (2014)
- The Dance and the Railroad (1981)
- The House of Sleeping Beauties (1983)
- The Sound of a Voice (1983)
- As the Crow Flies (1986)
- Bondage (1992)
- Trying to Find Chinatown (1996)
- Bang Kok (1996)
- Merchandising (1999)
- Jade Flowerpots and Bound Feet (2001)
- The Great Helmsman (2007)
- A Very DNA Reunion (2010)
- Cain and Abel (2014)
- Blind Alleys (1985)
- M. Butterfly (1993)
- Golden Gate (1994)
- The Lost Empire/The Monkey King (2001)
- Possession (2002)
- The Affair (2016)
- 1000 Airplanes on the Roof (1988)
- The Voyage (1992)
- The Silver River (1997)
- Aida (2000)
- Flower Drum Song (2001)
- Ainadamar (2003)
- The Sound of a Voice (2003)
- Tarzan (2006)
- Alice in Wonderland (2007)
- The Fly (2008)
- Dream of the Red Chamber (2016)
- An American Soldier (2018)
- Soft Power (2018)