On the day of the performance you could feel the excitement and jitters in the room as we practiced our piece at the Sorenson Unity Center before the show. Martin Luther King in his famous speech “I Have a Dream” and recited phrases from it with movement during the performance. The youth used Tableaux, which is a frozen picture that represents a story, to express their dreams in the performance.
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Some examples were to play professional soccer, to go to college, to buy houses for their moms, to be kind, to give back to the community, and to help others. In small groups, the youth shared with us the dreams they have for their futures, the dreams they have for their families, and the dreams they have for their world. We had fun dancing and playing theatre games with the youth while adding a different piece of the performance every week. On Tuesday evenings, we met with the youth at Hartland to teach them theatre skills such as projection (using a loud and clear voice), being in control of their voices and bodies while on stage, facing toward the audience, smiling and always giving 100% effort. Constitution as our quest for “a more perfect union.”įor the past few months at the UNP Hartland Partnership Center, four University of Utah Theatre Teaching students lead by Kelby McIntyre-Martinez worked with the Hartland Youth Center to put together a social action theatre piece, “We are Hartland!” The goal of the performance was to share youth hopes and dreams with the broader community.
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The free public presentations celebrate the joining of east-west as symbolized by the transcontinental railroad and interracial romance at the heart of “Citizen Wong,” and described in the U.S. Supreme Court case on birthright citizenship, is also a character in the play. Californian-born Wong Kim Ark, who won in the landmark 1898 U.S. Wong ( ), who was naturalized in 1874, had visited Ogden and probably elsewhere in Utah on his nationwide lecture tours about the Chinese. The fictional drama is based on 15 years of research by veteran Reuters journalist and actor Richard Chang. The powerful new play is inspired by the life and times of Wong Chin Foo (王清福, 1847–1898), a celebrity speaker-writer-social rights activist in the American Gilded Age, who mysteriously disappeared from history and is being rediscovered as the First Chinese American and “Asian-American Martin Luther King, Jr.” The play dramatically captures the essence of an era when Wong campaigned against calls for an “anti-Chinese wall,” the Chinese Exclusion Act, and federal government efforts to deny birthright citizenship.
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Pan Asian Repertory Theatre ( ) of New York, the largest and oldest Asian American theatre company on the East Coast, is delighted to work with three leading northern Utah institutions to present staged reading presentations of Citizen Wong( ) as part of the state’s celebration of the 150th anniversary of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869. *All performances will be followed by a Q&A with playwright, actors & co-director. May 7 | 6:30 pm Ogden Union Station May 8 | 7 pm Noorda Center for the Performing Arts, Orem May 9 | 7 pm Salt Lake City Public Library Free Admission. Pan Asian Repertory Theatre's 42 nd Milestone Season invites you to their 150th Golden Spike Anniversary Celebrations Free Staged Reading Presentations of Citizen Wong, a new play by Richard Chang, directed by Ernest Abuba and Chongren Fan, May 7-9.