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Theatre Double's reading series,
Underground Voices
Curated by Brad Rothbart
presents

Coastline
by Alice Tuan

 The playwright will be present at the reading.
About her own work, Ms. Tuan states: "Coastline is the result of what happens when the United States chokes on its own hypocrisy--the middle falls out, and the East and West coasts merge to form just a slit of land, connecting Canada and Mexico. What of a world when the country formerly known as the United States has been liposucked into the earth, now with an ocean pounding from each side? Can any of its citizenry survive?' Please come and join us in investigating this fascinating hypothesis made theatrical, and stay to meet the playwright and discuss the work at our wine and cheese post-show reception. For further information, members of the press can call 215.836.5382. The phone number for publication is 215.557.9421.
The ensemble for Coastline features Daniel Spicer, Garrett Hendricks, Jessica Howard, Jody Allen, Linda Waters, Matthew Saunders, Rene Hartl, Ruthanne Ankney, Samantha Weil and Stacey Breidenstein. The reading will take place at Theatre Double, 1619 Walnut Street in Philadelphia on Monday January 31 2000 at 8 pm. The order of the scenes in this piece is chosen by the audiece, so be sure to be there to help participate. Doors will open at 7:30. A wine and cheese reception will follow the performance. The reading is for one night only. Admission is pay-what-you-can, and the space is wheelchair accessible.

Alice Tuan (playwright) is the author of Last of the Suns and Ikebana, which premiered at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre and East West Players, respectively. Her solo performance of New Culture for a New Country, was commissioned and produced by En Garde Arts as a part of the site specific piece The Secret History of the Lower East Side. Her one-act Some Asians, had a production at Rhode Island's Perishable Theater as a winner of their annual Woman's Playwriting Festival (1997). Her 10-minute play, That Race Place, is touring schools in Southern California as a part of Cootie Shots, a collection of short plays written for youth dealing with topics such as racism, homophobia and difference. Ms. Tuan is the recipient of the NEA-TCG Playwright Residency Grant at East West Players, where she assembled the Turn Asian America Inside Out mini-conference/performance to gather academics and artists in thinking up new space for Asian American Theater. She is also the resident playwright at the Los Angeles Theatre Center through the California Arts Council and Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, where she facilitates the Wordsmiths playwriting workshops. A graduate of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Brown University, her plays mALL and Coastline were workshopped there and instrumental in the development of Virtual Hypertext Theater, which attempts to simulate computer rhythm and dynamics in a physical stage space. Readings from the past year include Ajax at New York's Public Theater, Iconana (the sequel to Ikebana) at the Japanese American National Museum, and Ah Q x Lu Hsun, a commission from Audrey Skirball Kenis and Cornerstone Theater Co. She is currently working on an adaptation of Middleton and Dekker's 1610 Jacobean drama The Roaring Girle with Melanie Joseph and the Foundry Theater. She also has a commission for her new play Hit from The Public Theater. Ms.Tuan has taught English as a Second Language in China and Los Angeles, and playwriting to many Los Angeles communities, most notably teenage wards at the Fred C. Nelles School of the Califonia Youth Authority and new Asian American Playwrights at East West Players' David Henry Hwang Writing Institute. She lives in Los Angeles' Echo Park neighborhood.
Future readings include:
07 February Paula Cizmar STREET STORIES
21 February Amy Wheeler WEEPING WOMAN
06 March Julie Jensen LAST LISTS OF MY MAD MOTHER