Bringing stories to the Stage
"The Leftover Monologues" is a play developed by Roseann Lake, an American journalist and author of Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World's Next Superpower. After spending two years interviewing 100+ Chinese "leftovers," Lake decided to stage "The Leftover Monologues" as a way of passing the microphone back to the voices that had inspired her book. More than anything, she wanted to let a live audience experience the candid, visceral and fervently bubbling cauldron of emotions that inevitably surfaced whenever she spoke of love, relationships, sex, and marriage, with young Chinese men and women.
Though leftover women are a driving force of the play, it is "leftover" more broadly defined -- as in "leftover topics," or things that don't get discussed openly, but should. It is comprised of a young dynamite cast of men and women who bravely take the stage to share their own personal stories. It is a bilingual show, and well-suited for both Chinese and foreign audiences. (Photo credit: the lovely gang over at BeijingBlend!)
Though leftover women are a driving force of the play, it is "leftover" more broadly defined -- as in "leftover topics," or things that don't get discussed openly, but should. It is comprised of a young dynamite cast of men and women who bravely take the stage to share their own personal stories. It is a bilingual show, and well-suited for both Chinese and foreign audiences. (Photo credit: the lovely gang over at BeijingBlend!)