| Soft Power | |
|---|---|
| Music | Jeanine Tesori |
| Lyrics | David Henry Hwang Jeanine Tesori (additional lyrics) |
| Book | David Henry Hwang |
| Premiere | May 3, 2018: Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles |
| Productions | 2018 Los Angeles 2018 San Francisco 2019 Off-Broadway |
Soft Power is a musical (also referred to by its authors as a "play with a musical"[1]) with book and lyrics by David Henry Hwang[2] and music and additional lyrics by Jeanine Tesori.
Soft Power was intended as a "reverse The King And I". Instead of exoticizing an Asian country, Soft Power exoticizes America by looking at it from a hypothetical future Chinese musical. It also serves as a quasi-sequel to Hwang's 2007 play Yellow Face. Like that play, the semi-autobiographical work centers around a stand-in for the author named DHH interacting with fictional characters. [3] The play was partially inspired by an incident in 2015, where Hwang was stabbed by a stranger on the streets of New York.
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- ^ Fung, Lisa (2018-05-03). "A big bet on 'Soft Power': How David Henry Hwang's latest play takes on China, Trump and more". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
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