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New York Times Reviews Past Swing Space Artist Young Jean Lee’s ‘Untitled Feminist Show’
NYTIMES THEATER REVIEW | YOUNG JEAN LEE'S 'UNTITLED FEMINIST SHOW'
Beneath Pink Parasols, Identity in Stark Form
By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Published: January 16, 2012
"Young Jean Lee is, hands down, the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation. In previous shows this Korean-American writer has devised a comic revue about black identity politics, retailored Shakespeare’s “King Lear” and taken to the stage herself to perform a cabaret act mostly about death.
Ms. Lee has said in interviews that she is motivated, in part, by scaring herself nearly to death with each new endeavor. Her latest, called “Untitled Feminist Show” and presented as part of the Coil festival organized by Performance Space 122, may well be her most daunting attempt to push her talent in a new direction. This time she has dispensed entirely with words to create a frolicsome if fuzzy riff on the female body and the female spirit, through movement (and music) alone."
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