Antigone Falun Gong

World Premiere
by Cherylene Lee
directed by David Furumoto
April 9, 2004 - May 16, 2004

This adaptation of Sophocles’s great tragedy is re-set in contemporary China. Playwright Lee, a 4th generation Chinese-American and author of The Legacy Codes, explores how the past connects to the present, the persecution of the Falun Gong, and how there may be more to America’s global reach than we imagine. Utilizing forms of Tai Chi, Wu Shu, Kung Fu, Chinese opera movement as well as the five Falun Gong exercises, this world premiere dramatizes the story of a lone woman defying a repressive government in a beautifully unique and provocative way.

 
 
 

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Biographies


  • Cherylene Lee

  • Bonnie Akimoto

  • Frances Cachapero

  • Michael Cheng

  • Michael Ching

  • David Furumoto

  • Raul Jocson

  • Randall Nakano

  • Keiko Shimosato
 

Production Photos

 
 

Production Awards

  • Bay Area Critics Circle: Best Choreography (Peter Kwong)
  • Bay Area Critics Circle: Best Lighting Design (nomination) (Jim Cave)
  • Bay Area Critics Circle: Best Costume Design (nomination) (Fumiko Bielefeldt)
  • Bay Area Critics Circle: Best Original Score (nomination) (Mark Izu)