The Sound of a Voice
The Sound of a Voice | |
---|---|
Written by | David Henry Hwang |
Date premiered | 1983 |
Place premiered | Joseph Papp Public Theater |
Original language | English |
The Sound of a Voice is a 1983 play by American playwright David Henry Hwang. Hwang's fifth play, it is an original ghost story inspired by Japanese folk stories, films, and Noh theater. The play was first produced as part of the production Sound and Beauty on November 6, 1983 Off-Broadway at the Joseph Papp Public Theater. It was directed by and featured John Lone.
Composer Philip Glass and Hwang adapted it for the opera The Sound of a Voice in 2003. That same year, Susan Hoffman directed a film adaptation entitled Sound of a Voice adapted by actor-screenwriters Lane Nishikawa and Natsuko Ohama. The film was developed through the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women and premiered at the Mill Valley Film Festival on October 4, 2002.
It is published as part of Trying to Find Chinatown: The Selected Plays and Between Worlds: Contemporary Asian-American Plays by Theatre Communications Group and also in an acting edition published by Dramatists Play Service.[1][2]
References
- v
- t
- e
- FOB (1980)
- Family Devotions (1981)
- Rich Relations (1986)
- M. Butterfly (1988)
- Face Value (1993)
- Golden Child (1996)
- Peer Gynt (1998)
- Tibet Through the Red Box (2004)
- Yellow Face (2007)
- Chinglish (2011)
- Kung Fu (2014)
- The Dance and the Railroad (1981)
- The House of Sleeping Beauties (1983)
- 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)
- Cain and Abel (2014)
- Blind Alleys (1985)
- M. Butterfly (1993)
- Golden Gate (1994)
- The Lost Empire/The Monkey King (2001)
- Possession (2002)
- The Affair (2016)
- 1000 Airplanes on the Roof (1988)
- The Voyage (1992)
- The Silver River (1997)
- Aida (2000)
- Flower Drum Song (2001)
- Ainadamar (2003)
- The Sound of a Voice (2003)
- Tarzan (2006)
- Alice in Wonderland (2007)
- The Fly (2008)
- Dream of the Red Chamber (2016)
- An American Soldier (2018)
- Soft Power (2018)