Trying to Find Chinatown: The Selected Plays of David Henry Hwang

Author: David Henry Hwang

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group (1999)

This eight-play collection includes: 

FOB: "fresh off the boat" explores the conflicts between old and new worlds

The Dance and the Railroad: a haunting play about the inhuman conditions of railroad workers in the 1860s American West

Family Devotions: a biting work which probes the religious conflicts in a modern Chinese-American family

The Sound of a Voice: a meditation on the traditional roles of man and woman set in feudal Japan

The House of Sleeping Beauties: a reworking of a novella by Yasunari Kawabata

The Voyage: the libretto to the opera by Philip Glass, which examines Columbus's arrival in America

Bondage: a one-act set in an S&M parlor, which examines racial stereotypes and sexual myths

Trying to Find Chinatown: a two-person play, in which two Asian-American men—one searching for his Asian heritage, the other trying to shake himself free—meet by chance in New York City