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She Devil of the China Seas by playwright gwangung (Open Thread)

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You may have seen commenter gwangung mention his latest play that’s in production – She Devil of the China Seas.

Most of us won’t be able to see it in person, but they have taped a show for video on demand, and tickets are now available here.

Here’s a 30-second trailer.

60-second trailer, expanded from the first

Behind the scenes: Meet gwangung and some of the actors!

I asked gwangung if he would be interested in a discussion of his play on Medium Cool, and he graciously agreed, so mark your calendars for the Medium Cool next week ( Sept 25).

What’s the play about? Here’s what gwangung tells us:

The logline is “Pirate Queen vs. Immortal Sorceress in 19th Century China”, but it’s REALLY a mash up of comic books, Red Sonja/Conan, and the real life pirate queen Ching Shih—all combined into something I tried to get as close as an MCU movie (Marvel Cinematic Universe) on stage as I possibly could.

Tickets are $10! If that’s cost prohibitive, just let me know by email – I am willing to bet that there are a few jackals who will happily comp tickets for anyone in a tight spot this month.

So read the description and watch the trailer and if any of that looks/sounds interesting to you, watch the play and come talk about the play with us on the Sept 25 Medium Cool.  The playwright and our Medium Cool host will facilitate the conversation.

Open thread.

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  5. 5.

    gwangung

    @SpaceUnit: We started out as a sketch comedy group, Pork Filled Players. Partly because we were hams….and there was an unwritten law that Asian American comedy groups had to have a food related name….

  9. 9.

    gwangung

    @SpaceUnit: Lessee….besides us, there were

    • Club o’ Noodles (Southern Cal)
    • Hot Sauce Posse (Vancouver, BC
    • Stir Friday Night (Chicago)
    • Mango Tribe (Chicago)
    • Assaulted Fish (Vancouver, BC)
    • Taco Flavored Egg Rolls (Chicago)
  17. 17.

    CaseyL

    Ooh, looks like fun!  I may need something distracting this weekend (Elder Kitty has developed serious health problems) so maybe maybe.

  20. 20.

    WaterGirl

    @zhena gogolia: If that’s the case, that was an error on my part.  Let me check.

    edit: Okay, fixed now.  Everybody please go back and look at the third video – it’s 2 minutes long and you get a bit of behind the scenes from the various actors and from gwangung.

    Sorry about that!

  22. 22.

    Wapiti

    @Origuy: I started glancing through that, but the Bolivian cholet (chola (woman) + chalet) blew me away. I found better examples with a quick search.

  23. 23.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I am so happy for gwangung, and I will most happily buy a ticket and watch She Devil of the China Seas.

    That said, I do so with a little bit of apprehension. The genres (SF, Marvel comic books, even pirates) are roughly 180° from my familiar and comfortable zone. But in my dotage, I am determined to open myself up to new experiences. I might love it, I might not. But at least I’ll have arrived there from an open place.

    Am also a big believer that we jackals should try to support each other — financially if we can, like buying books or tickets or quilt squares — but also, just to be there, be in the space for all the doers and creators and makers among us.

    Bring on the show, gwangung! I’m looking forward to it!

  28. 28.

    JMG

    It’s an open thread so I’m posting about a weirdness. All of a sudden, I am getting alerts from the Harvard campus cops about some suspicious package at Northeastern (about 4 miles away). I am a septuagenarian retiree on Cape Cod about 110 miles away from either school. All I can guess is that there’s a Harvard freshman with my name and wires got crossed. I hope the kid can straighten that out before I inevitably start getting his personal texts.

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    Mai Naem mobile

    I love the Pork Filled production name and this play sounds very cool. Hope it gets turned into an action packed adventure movie.

  33. 33.

    SpaceUnit

    @gwangung:

    Also, are taco-flavored egg rolls an actual thing?

     

    Really just asking for a friend.  I totally haven’t been browsing the online menus of local Asian cuisine restaurants.

  34. 34.

    gwangung

    @SpaceUnit: I think it was a name made up to reflect the group, which had Asian and Latino members….(though, in the early years of Chinese American history, I wouldn’t have bet against some experiments in small restaurants along Route 66 in Arizona and New Mexico…) (though obviously without the sticking power of sweet and sour and crab rangoon…..)

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