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The Year of the Dragon (play)
''The Year of the Dragon'' is the best-known play by Frank Chin, the first Asian American playwright to be produced on a mainstream New York stage. It was staged in 1974〔http://www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm?search_by=show&id=3156〕 by the American Place Theatre, and was filmed by PBS in 1975 with George Takei in the leading role, replacing Randall Duk Kim from the stage production. The rest of the original cast appeared in PBS's production; Pat Suzuki, Tina Chen, Conrad Yama, Lilah Kan, Doug Higgins, and Keenan Shimizu all reprised their roles. In addition to subsequent productions, the play was revived in 2001 by East West Players in 2001, under the direction of Mako Iwamatsu, who had directed the first EWP production in 1974.〔http://articles.latimes.com/2001/feb/02/entertainment/ca-20314〕
==Story==
The play tells the story of Fred Eng, 40-something tour guide who lives at home in San Francisco's Chinatown with his parents and younger brother, Johnny. Fred is frustrated because ten years earlier he had given up his dreams of being a writer to help his cancer-stricken father run the tour guide business. Yet, not only is his father still alive, he also has no respect for Fred's desire to be a writer and mocks Fred for dropping out of college, even though Fred did so to help him. Fred also hates working as a tour guide, as he must act out the white tourists' fantasy of what Chinese people are like, unable to make them understand that Chinatown is not China and that its residents are Americans too. Fred is also frustrated that his brother Johnny, in addition to running with a bad crowd, is not interested in leaving Chinatown for a better life, but wants to become part of the family business.
The conflict of the play centers around a Chinese New Year celebration when Fred's sister, Sissy, comes to visit with her sinophile white husband, Ross. Sissy has been on tour promoting a Chinese cookbook that she and Fred have written; the indignity of being reduced to writing food porn as his only marketable outlet for writing further upsets Fred. On the same day that Sissy and Ross arrive, Pa's first wife (and Fred's biological mother) arrives from China, thanks to the new immigration laws that allowed Chinese women to immigrate to the USA to join their husbands. The arrival of "China Mama" creates conflict between Pa and his current wife, Hyacinth, who feels betrayed by his decision to bring his first wife over after he had promised not to and by the fact that she herself had risked losing her citizenship by marrying Pa. It also becomes clear that Pa wants to split the family in two as he nears the end of his life, favoring his "Chinese" family over his "American" one.
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