The Great Leap
About the show
Inspired by events from her father’s life and (short-lived) basketball career, playwright Lauren Yee ('The Hatmaker’s Wife') makes her Atlantic debut with this new cross-cultural drama.
... Read moreSan Francisco, spring 1989. Manford Lum, locally renowned on the sidewalk basketball courts of Chinatown, talks his way onto a college team, just before they travel to Beijing for a “friendship” game. When they arrive, China is in the throes of the post-Cultural Revolution era, and Manford must juggle international politics and his own personal history.
See it if It's a play that again reminds me how I never understood when I was young that my parents and grandparents were young too.
Don't see it if If you're looking for a comedy, this isn't it. It's an insightful play that makes us look back into our past and our forbears
See it if you want to see BD Wong in a play about 1980's China where sports and politics play a intermingling role in USA-China relations
Don't see it if you don't like plays involving basketball, politics occurring in China during the Cultural Revolution as seen through a hopeful player.
See it if ambitious premise 2 portray US-China relationship thru basketball diplomacy; high energy, clever in your face trash talking; fine BD Wong
Don't see it if use of basketball 2 explain everything is formulaic & reductive; 2nd act revelations/Tiananmen Sq ending contrived; don't care 4 characters
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