The Streets of New York
Jan 2018 · New Word City
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". . . one of the country's most prominent experimental dramatists."
- The New York Times
Here are five enthusiastically received plays set in New York by Charles Mee: Coney Island Avenue, The Mail Order Bride, Queens Boulevard, Utopia Parkway, and Our Times: On the Street Where I Live.
"You would have to be blind not to be impressed . . . "
- CurtainUp.com
"In Queens Boulevard . . . Mee essentially throws a lavish, heartfelt party for New York City's most diverse borough. Guests at the wedding of Vijay . . . and Shizuko . . . cavort in traditional Indian and Japanese costumes on Mimi Lien's festive scenic re-creation of Jackson Heights' polyglot street life; Russian bath denizens do a swiveling striptease to Pakistani qawwali music . . . ; the playlist riffs gleefully through francophone rap, Okinawan folk-pop and ABBA karaoke. Mee's loose-limbed plot - based on an Indian Kathakali play and inflected with Homer - sends his newlyweds on diverging quests, all the better for them to get instructively tangled in nets of social discord and obligation. Vijay's friend Abdi . . . passionately hammers home Mee's point: that the 'social love' of a community 'makes a safe place for our personal love to flourish.'. . . Dig in the dancing Queens, indeed."
- TimeOut.com
"Queens Boulevard . . . [is] absolutely bursting with vitality. . . . [and] it ends on a strong, feel-good note that has both actors and audience members exiting with smiles on their faces."
- theatermania.com
- The New York Times
Here are five enthusiastically received plays set in New York by Charles Mee: Coney Island Avenue, The Mail Order Bride, Queens Boulevard, Utopia Parkway, and Our Times: On the Street Where I Live.
"You would have to be blind not to be impressed . . . "
- CurtainUp.com
"In Queens Boulevard . . . Mee essentially throws a lavish, heartfelt party for New York City's most diverse borough. Guests at the wedding of Vijay . . . and Shizuko . . . cavort in traditional Indian and Japanese costumes on Mimi Lien's festive scenic re-creation of Jackson Heights' polyglot street life; Russian bath denizens do a swiveling striptease to Pakistani qawwali music . . . ; the playlist riffs gleefully through francophone rap, Okinawan folk-pop and ABBA karaoke. Mee's loose-limbed plot - based on an Indian Kathakali play and inflected with Homer - sends his newlyweds on diverging quests, all the better for them to get instructively tangled in nets of social discord and obligation. Vijay's friend Abdi . . . passionately hammers home Mee's point: that the 'social love' of a community 'makes a safe place for our personal love to flourish.'. . . Dig in the dancing Queens, indeed."
- TimeOut.com
"Queens Boulevard . . . [is] absolutely bursting with vitality. . . . [and] it ends on a strong, feel-good note that has both actors and audience members exiting with smiles on their faces."
- theatermania.com
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About the author
Charles Mee's plays have been performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater, Lincoln Center, the Humana Festival, Steppenwolf, American Repertory Theatre, Center Theatre Group, La Mama, Here, the Cherry Lane, the New Ohio, and other places in the United States as well as in Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Istanbul, Paris, Vienna, and elsewhere. He was honored with a full season of his plays at the Signature Theatre, and, among other awards, he is the recipient of two Obies, a Laura Pels Award, a Booth Award, the Richard B. Fisher Award, and the Award of Merit from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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