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David, you won’t believe where I am. In...

Marcus G. Dahlman aka Marcus Gee

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David Henry Hwang

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Young Adult, Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act 1, Scene 1
Time & Place
Present Day, Guizhou province, China
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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David, you won’t believe where I am. In China. Guizhou Province, to be exact. After everything that happened in the States, I needed to take some time off. So I came to China, hoping to find – something real, true?

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The Dong call their music “ da ge '' – the “big song” – melodies that can only be sung by the whole village – together. The Dong have a saying, “Rice feeds the body, but song feeds the heart.”.

For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: David Henry Hwang, Yellow Face, Dramatist Play Services, 2007, pp. 1-2.

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