The Golden Dragon: A Kaleidoscopic Look at a Globalized World
The Studio Theatre - Mead Theatre (1501 14th St. NW Washington, DC 20005)
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The last date listed for The Golden Dragon was Saturday December 10, 2011 / 2:00pm.
4 Goldstar Member Reviews
Goldstar Member
The play was poorly written, severely limiting the actors' success with the audience. Several of the actors were outstanding, but the play was a total waste of time. The symbols were vague and, whether intended or not, the different elements were never connected very well. If this is theater of the absurd, then the actions should have been more fascinating on the face of it. In the end, one is left with little to take away or remember.Written on Nov 21 2011
If the playwright is the most produced in Germany, then perhaps his most successful play to date should have been mounted by Studio. As it is, one is left with a very low opinion of this playwright.
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Allan
Direction, acting, staging, pacing all excellent. The problem is the play itself, which I found too simplistic and heavy-handed... Congratulations to the Studio for taking it on!Written on Nov 07 2011
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Goldstar Member
Very interesting play about the German psyche. The Chinese, Taiwanese restaurant is in a way a venue to describe the lonely, unhappy "owners" of the land. the acting is superb. Be prepared to see 4-5 intertwined stories and actors switching roles in a maddening tempo.Written on Dec 05 2011
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David S. Kessler
Amazing show, beautifully acted, masterfully directed. A remarkable ride from humor to pathos. You'll still be talking about this days after you see it.Written on Dec 05 2011
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Description
The Golden Dragon
by Roland Schimmelpfennig
directed by Serge Seiden
This play by one of Germany's most innovative and adventurous writers unfolds in brief and fierce comic scenes. Five actors cross age, race and gender to play sixteen characters in this vicious, poetic and surprisingly moving investigation of how intertwined our lives really are.
In the cramped kitchen of The Golden Dragon, a pan-Asian restaurant, a young Chinese cook—the new one, the one who's looking for his sister—has a toothache. The orders keep flying as he screams in the kitchen, knitting the customers' lives together in a mix of fried rice noodles, steamed dumplings and pineapple-peach chicken.
The other four cooks pull their coworker's tooth using some schnapps and a spare set of pliers. His tooth ends up in the Thai soup of an exhausted flight attendant. In the apartment building above her, a young couple fight and eat takeout, while another man escapes from his apartment to the restaurant below to avoid watching his wife move out. The same man ends up drinking with the shopkeeper of the dry goods store next door to the restaurant, who is more connected to the young Chinese man than anyone suspects. Dark, funny and startling, Schimmelpfennig's play traces the isolation and unexpected connections of a globalized world.
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