9780802135001
Porcelain and A Language of Their Own: Two Plays share button
Chay Yew
Format Paperback
Dimensions 5.52 (w) x 8.26 (h) x 0.66 (d)
Pages 230
Publisher Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Publication Date April 1997
ISBN 9780802135001
Book ISBN 10 0802135005
About Book
Porcelain is an examination of a young man's crime of passion. Triply scorned - as an Asian, a homosexual, and now a murderer - nineteen-year-old John Lee has confessed to shooting his lover in a public lavatory in London. Porcelain dissects the crime through a prism of conflicting voices: newscasts, flashbacks, and John's recollections to a prison psychiatrist. A Language of Their Own is a lyrical and dramatic meditation on the nature of desire and sexuality as four men - three Asian and one white - come together and drift apart in a series of interconnecting stories.
Reviews

Cathay Che

In Language and his first play, Porcelain, both included in this initial collection of his work, Yew brings a powerful gay presence to a world that has too often been distorted...Yew is savvy with regards to the stereotypes of race and sexual identity, but he refuses to play into or against them. Instead, Yew is committed to nuanced individuals who face unexpected, extreme situations. His work continues to pose challenges to gay, straight, and Asian audiences alike, and on each front he is uncompromising.
The Advocate