Month: November 2009

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Amelia Workman in Young Jean Lee’s KING LEAR at Soho Rep 1/7/2010

In 1998 Daniel Aukin became Artistic Director alongside Executive Director Alexandra Conley. The two produced new work by artists including Adam Bock, Young Jean Lee, Richard Maxwell, Melissa James Gibson, Quincy Long, The Flying Machine and Maria Irene Fornes. In 2006, Sarah Benson became the fourth Artistic Director of the company. She directed the New York premiere of Sarah Kane’s BLASTED to critical acclaim in fall

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She A Chinese NY Post review

Updated: Sun., Nov. 8, 2009, 9:37 AM
‘She’ is one to see
By V.A. MUSETTO
Last Updated: 9:37 AM, November 8, 2009
Posted: 12:53 AM, November 8, 2009
I am a movie junkie, but there is still a limit to the number of films I can see at a festival; after all, I have to leave time to sleep, eat and party.

During my recent six-day visit to the London Film Festival, I managed to see 10 of the 193 features on display. I can’t say I disliked any of the 10, although some wowed me more than others.

At the top of the wow list was “She, a Chinese,” written and directed by Xiaolu Guo, who was born in China and now resides in London.

It’s the story of Mei, a young woman living in a depressed Chinese town — she’s never been more than a few miles from home — who one day takes off to see the world.

Her journey leads her to London, where she enters into a platonic marriage with an elderly Brit.

Lu Huang is superb as Mei, capturing her every emotion. You might have seen Lu as a woman sold into sex slavery in “Blind Mountain,” which unreeled at Film Forum last year. Perhaps the theater will pick up “She, a Chinese,” too.