Family Devotions Explained

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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Archived copy . 2011-06-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121013205121/http://www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm?search_by=show&title=Family%20Devotions . 2012-10-13 . dead .
  2. Web site: Family Devotions . Public Theater . March 27, 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120709153450/http://www.publictheater.org/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,99999999/id,528 . July 9, 2012 .
  3. Web site: Trying to Find Chinatown: The Selected Plays . TCG . June 1, 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120308132538/http://www.tcg.org/ecommerce/showbookdetails.cfm?ID=TCG572 . March 8, 2012 .