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Multimedia Production of Genny Lim's 1982 Play "Paper Angels" Coming to San Francisco in SeptemberAug 27 2010
New York City-based theater and film company Direct Arts is bringing a new multimedia production of Genny Lim's 1982 play Paper Angels to San Francisco September 15-17. The performances will be held in Portsmouth Square, in the heart of Chinatown, as part of the San Francisco Fringe Festival and will commemorate the 100th Anniversary of Angel Island, the Ellis Island of the West.
Lim is an adjunct faculty member in the Bachelor of Arts Completion Program.
Set in 1915 during the Chinese Exclusion Act, Paper Angels is about an elderly Chinese railroad worker attempting to bring his wife to America after many decades of separation. The play premiered in 1982 and was subsequently filmed
for American Playhouse on PBS starring James Hong and Joan Chen. Dusting off this prescient gem nearly three decades later in the wake of heated debates on America's immigration policy, Direct Arts' new multimedia production incorporates projections of archival images, live traditional Chinese music, spoken word and segments of Chinese opera and folkdance.
