The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin
Presented by
History Theatre
$15-$40
ASL/AD Interpreted performance: Friday, March 31st at 7:30pm
Open Captioning performance: Saturday, April 1st at 7:30pm
Open Captioning performance: Saturday, April 1st at 7:30pm
30 East 10th Street St.Paul
MN 55101
United States
By Jessica Huang
Directed by Mei Ann Teo
March 18–April 9, 2017
A haunting, poetic journey of secrets, identity and family.
1939. Follow the true story of Harry Chin, one of the many Chinese nationals who landed in the U.S. through a loophole in the Chinese Exclusion Act. Haunted by the ghosts of his past and provoked by the curiosity of his daughter, Harry is forced to confront his buried secrets. Through leaps of time and space, we experience the abhorrent conditions at Seattle Immigration Station, Harry’s longing for the life he left in China, and the complications of love in a new land. Jessica Huang’s powerful new drama explores the personal and political repercussions of making a group of people “illegal.”