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Columbia University School of the Arts International Play Reading Festival
Co-founded by Carol Becker and David Henry Hwang, this marquee annual festival presents readings of three plays by living international playwrights alongside conversations with the playwrights and translators. © 2020 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York Creative Commons License. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Episodes
11 episodes
Playwright Panel Discussion 2021
Playwrights Asiimwe Deborah Kawe (Uganda), Nick Makoha (England), and Dima Mikhayel Matta (Lebanon), in conversation with Columbia University School of the Arts International Play Reading Festival Co-Founder David Henry ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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58:48
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This is not a memorized script, this is a well-rehearsed story
Queerness is a construct. So is language, and so is this play. Nothing about this performance is reliable. The performer questions gender, memory, sex, identity, and her relationship with Beirut — but gives no answers.THIS ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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47:30
The Dark
In the heat of a November night in 1978, after eight years of civil war, four-year-old Nick and his mother flee their homeland of Uganda. What unfolds is a story of those who find themselves exiled, told through a series of voices echoing from ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:10:24
Appointment with gOD
A group of nervous visa applicants in an unnamed country sit in a waiting room, trading stories and tips on how to best present themselves before US consuls — the “gODs.” Their reasons for coming to the US vary, but will the gODs consider them?...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:10:23
2021 Trailer
Co-founded by Carol Becker, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts, and David Henry Hwang, Theatre Program, this annual festival presents readings of three plays by living international playwrights. Now in its fourth year,...
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Season 2
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Episode 0
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1:51
Playwright Panel Discussion
Playwrights Candace Chong Mui Ngam (Hong Kong), Nophand (Thailand), and Camila Villegas (Mexico), in conversation with Columbia University School of the Arts International Play Reading Festival Co-Founder
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:00:46
Translator Panel Discussion
Featuring translators Daniel Jáquez (Rarámuri Dreams) and Nophand (Taxi Radio).Moderated by Susan Bernofsky, Writing. Transl...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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54:42
May 35th
Thirty years later, the Tiananmen Square massacre remains censored and repressed. Sui Lum and Ah Dai grapple with a date so volatile that the government won’t let them say it aloud. May 35th explores the indelible human aspiration for ...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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1:17:48
Taxi Radio
On a stormy night in Bangkok, four beings are stuck in traffic. Accompanied by karaoke hits, Taxi Radio is a dark comedy that conjures the afterlife and calls upon higher powers to critique cycles of corruption. This soulful play highl...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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