Conversations with William M. Hoffman: David Henry Hwang, playwright and librettist, Pt. 1 of 2

The enigmatic and multifaceted playwright, screenwriter, librettist, David Henry Hwang is equally at home on stage and in film, often examining questions of sexual, racial, and social identities. His work strikes a deep chord in a contemporary world that is obsessed with difficulties of communicating across the same divides as Hwang's characters.
In "The Dance and The Railroad" he named a character "Lone," which was played by John Lone. And in "Yellow Face" he had a character he named Henry David Hwang.
Hwang is equally fascinated with metatheatrical questions, freely breaking the Fourth Wall, whether via Brecht, Pirandello or Chinese and Japanese theatre we don't know. His questions become ever deeper until "Yellow Face", a mockumentary combining real events in Hwang's life with fictional events.
David Henry Hwang, whose work we first encountered in M. Butterfly, has like the butterfly developed in his cocoon and then broke free and flown away, beautiful, fascinating, and complex.
Conversations with William M. Hoffman is CUNY TV 's television series of discussions with major theatre and musical figures of our times. Conversations with William M. Hoffman is hosted by Professor William M. Hoffman, Professor of Theatre at Lehman College (CUNY). He is also the author of the Broadway play As Is, which earned him a Drama Desk Award in 1986, an Obie, as well as Tony and Pulitzer nominations for best play.
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