| After an unpleasant
phone conversation with his very traditional parents living in Taiwan, New
Yorker Will Chen hangs up the phone only to discover that hours earlier, an
earthquake registering a magnitude of 7.5 had struck the island where his
parents live, cutting off all forms communication.
Unconvinced of the sequence of
events, an anxious Will exits his apartment for some fresh air, only to
that find the moment he does, he is lost.
Aided only by a
mysterious new friend with a proclivity for beer and Chinese food, Will
must traverse an unknown city peopled with psychotic crooning deli owners,
Clown Waiters, the Pizza Ninja and Asian Freud as he attempts to find his
way back home.
But as the connection
from one island to another crumbles away, he soon realizes that you can't
get back home if you don't first know where you came from. |
And the Earth
Moved is, at its heart, a play about balancing the duality between our
parent cultures and the commercial American world we live in; a testament
to how one remains true to ones cultural and familial traditions while
simultaneously living and breathing in the age of consumerism.
It is an identity piece
which, while specifically Asian-American, ideally resonates universal
truths about us all, irrespective of origin.
It's also a wacky, zainy,
goofball musical with some cool tunes and a few moments that may make you
feel like a racist for laughing. Not really. (Really.)
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