UPCOMING EVENTS

Public Lecture:
Trying on The Yellow Jacket at the Limits of Our Town: The Mundane Performances of Race and Nation

Ju Yon Kim
Assistant Professor of English
Harvard University

Wed, April 11, 2012
5.00 pm
Thompson Room, Barker Center
12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

First produced on Broadway in 1912, J. Harry Benrimo and George C. Hazelton, Jr.’s play The Yellow Jacket was an international hit touted as a landmark in modern American drama. This lecture will compare The Yellow Jacket with Thornton Wilder’s Our Town (1938), and explore how each play used theatrical conventions inspired by the Chinese opera to present “estranged” performances of everyday behaviors. It will moreover examine the relationship between these performances of the mundane and the plays' respective stagings of racial and national boundaries.

This event is co-sponsored by the Korea Institute and the Committee on Dramatic Arts.

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