Young Jean Lee’s Theatre Company
Straight White Men
A central figure of New York’s theatre scene, Young Jean Lee is coming to Greece for the first time, as a guest of the Athens Festival. The Korean-born playwright and director’s work deals with the issue of identity in all its forms (national, social and sexual), casting into doubt the dominant values of contemporary neo-liberal societies.
What happens when at some point we lose our greatest privilege, that is to say, when we forget we are privileged? This unexpected question lies at the outset of Straight White Men, which focuses on the male model of Western societies: the white, straight man. Like a distant echo of Arthur Miller’s The Death of a Salesman, which featured the conflicts of a white middle-class family in post-war America, Young Jean Lee’s play puts on the stage a similarly typical, modern American family: a father and three sons in a purposely conventional setting, complete with Christmas tree. What will happen when one of the sons questions the expectations his family has of him?
In English with Greek surtitles.
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Duration 90΄
Peiraios 260
- 22/06/2015 at 21:00
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