FOB (play)

FOB
Revival by Asian American Theater Company
Written by	David Henry Hwang
Characters	Dale Grace Steve
Date premiered	June 8, 1980
Place premiered	Joseph Papp Public Theater New York City
Original language	English
Subject	East/West cultural stereotypes
Genre	Drama
Setting	Los Angeles; early eighties

FOB is a 1980 Obie Award-winning play by American playwright David Henry Hwang. Hwang's first play, it depicts the contrasts and conflicts between established Asian Americans and "fresh off the boat" (FOB) newcomer immigrants. The play premiered at the Stanford Asian American Theatre Project in 1979 under the direction of the author and was further developed at the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. It received its professional debut on June 8, 1980 Off-Broadway at the Joseph Papp Public Theater.^[1] It was directed by Mako, with John Lone and Tzi Ma in the cast.

It is published as part of Trying to Find Chinatown: The Selected Plays by Theatre Communications Group and also in an acting edition published by Dramatists Play Service.

External links

FOB at the Internet off-Broadway Database
2005 revival by the Asian American Theater Company

References

↑ http://www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm?search_by=show&title=FOB

Obie Award for plays

The Blacks (1961)
Who'll Save the Plowboy? (1962)
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1963)
Home Movies (1964)
The Old Glory (1965)
The Indian Wants the Bronx (1968)
What the Butler Saw (1970)
The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel (1971)
Bad Habits / The Hot l Baltimore / When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (1973)
Short Eyes (1974)
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf (1975)
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You (1979)
FOB (1980)
Cloud Nine (1982)
Spunk (1989)
Floyd Collins / Love! Valour! Compassion! (1995)
How I Learned to Drive / Rent / The Vagina Monologues (1996)
Golden Child / Hedwig and the Angry Inch (1998)
Bug / The Romance of Magno Rubio (2003)
A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant (2004)
Ruined (2009)
Circle Mirror Transformation and The Aliens (2010)
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (2011)
4000 Miles (2012)
Detroit and Grimly Handsome (2013)

The works of David Henry Hwang

Full-length plays	FOB (1980) Family Devotions (1981) Rich Relations (1986) M. Butterfly (1988) Face Value (1993) Golden Child (1996) Peer Gynt (1998, with Stephan Muller; from Ibsen) Tibet Through the Red Box (2004, from Sis) Yellow Face (2007) Chinglish (2011)

Short plays	The Dance and the Railroad (1981) The House of Sleeping Beauties (1983, from Kawabata) The Sound of a Voice (1983) As the Crow Flies (1986) Bondage (1992) Trying to Find Chinatown (1996) Bang Kok (1996) Merchandising (1999) Jade Flowerpots and Bound Feet (2001) The Great Helmsman (2007) A Very DNA Reunion (2010)

Film/television	Blind Alleys (1985, with Kimball) M. Butterfly (1993) Golden Gate (1994) The Lost Empire (2001) Possession (2002, with Jones and LaBute, from Byatt)

Music theatre	1000 Airplanes on the Roof (1988, with Glass and Sirlin) The Voyage (1992, with Glass) The Silver River (1997, with Sheng) Aida (2000, with Woolverton & Falls, John and Rice, from Verdi) Flower Drum Song (2001, with Rodgers and Hammerstein, from Fields, Hammerstein, and Lee) Ainadamar (2003, with Golijov) The Sound of a Voice (2003, with Glass) Tarzan (2006, with Collins, from Burroughs) Alice in Wonderland (2007, with Chin, from Carroll) The Fly (2008, with Shore)