Stuck Elevator is a comic-rap-scrap-metal-opera prompted by the real-life experience of a Chinese restaurant delivery man who was trapped in an elevator in the Bronx for 81 hours.
Working at Happy Dragon Restaurant, he pays a $60,000 debt to smugglers for his passage from China to the United States; from a country touted as the next global economic superpower to a country founded on the ideals of democracy and freedom.
The show provides a personal entry point to thinking about and discussing topics that include immigration, labor, China, family obligation and fortune cookies for an undocumented immigrant/indentured slave in 21st century America.
For information, please contact
Beth Morrison Projects
beth AT bethmorrisonprojects.org
+1 (646) 682-7181
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Stuck Elevator is a project of Creative Capital.
Touring is made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Theater Pilot, with lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The show was developed, in part, with assistance from the Sundance Institute Theatre Program.
2010
International Festival of Arts & Ideas [Info]
2009
Hand2Mouth Risk/Reward Festival
On the Boards NW New Works Festival
Museum of Chinese in America
Creative Capital [Info]
4Culture
API/2
Artist Trust
Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs
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