Family Devotions | |
Characters: | Robert Ama Hannah Chester Wilbur PoPo Joanne Jenny DiGou |
Setting: | Los Angeles; early eighties |
Premiere: | October 18, 1981 |
Place: | Joseph Papp Public Theater New York City |
Orig Lang: | English |
Subject: | East/West cultural stereotypes; Religion; Family |
Genre: | Drama |
Family Devotions is a 1981 play by American playwright David Henry Hwang.[1] Hwang's third play depicts the clash of West and East within three generations of an assimilated Chinese-American family living in a Los Angeles suburb. The play premiered on October 18, 1981 Off-Broadway at the Joseph Papp Public Theater.[2] It was directed by Robert Allan Ackerman, with Michael Paul Chan, Jodi Long, Lauren Tom, and Victor Wong. The play was nominated for a Drama Desk Award.
It is published as part of Trying to Find Chinatown: The Selected Plays by Theatre Communications Group.[3] It is also in an acting edition published by Dramatists Play Service.