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Vietnam Project II: Past and Present
October 2010-April 2011

   
Building on our history of stories from the Pan Asian world, we will continue our pioneering tradition of bi-lingual productions and to cement artistic bridges begun with VIETNAM PROJECT I:
THE MISSING WOMAN
,
(click here for the video clip)

the first professionally produced show in the Vietnamese language ever performed in New York City.

WE ARE
Written & Directed by Nguyen Minh Ngoc

Performed in Vietnamese and English

March 18 - 26, 2011
(10 perfomances only)
at the West End Theater
263 W 86th Street
(Broadway and West End Avenue)

Stage Reading of selected scenes
Fall / Winter 2010


Pan Asian continues the collaboration begun in 2008 with Vietnamese artist, Nguyen thi Minh Ngoc, uniting 6
renowned Vietnamese and American artists directed by Mrs. Nguyen for a prodcution that will use traditional theatrical techniques, such as CAI LUONG (southern style of opera) to explore controversial contemporary themes.


Nguyen Thi Minh Ngoc is a theatre director, writer, playwright, theatrical professor, and principal of Tran Huu Tran Theater (a traditional arts training school), journalist and co-founder of Small Theatre, an initiative to reinvigorate the performing arts in Vietnam. she has written and directed many plays and screenplays, including Hai Nguyet, which won the "A" prize of the National Cinema Association and was shown at the 3 Continents Festivals in Nantes, France 1998. 

   
  WE ARE is supported in part,
by a grant from the
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS 
   
   
   

MONSTER 

 
   
  MONSTER by Derek Nguyen
Directed by Kaipo Schwab

March 29 –April 17, 2011

In the California desert suburb of Sun Valley, Detective Tang Tran investigates the disappearance of a Vietnamese high school student following a brutal hate crime—but as the case unfolds, he discovers that Monsters don't only live underneath our beds—they also live within us.