Columbia Blue Glaze Theatre Presents A BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY

For its spring production, Columbia Blue Glaze Theatre is proud to present A Beautiful Country, a play written by the Singaporean American playwright Chay Yew, and adapted by Davis Chen. Incorporating tragicomic scenes, video, dance, and first-person testimonials, the play chronicles the turbulent history of Asian American, drifting from the aching memories of Angel Island to the loss and melancholy experienced by the Asian diaspora in the present day. Through the eyes of Miss Visa Denied, a transgender performer who struggles to come to terms with their non-binary identity, Yew dramatizes America's contradictory messages regarding race, gender, and orientalism. At its core, the play seeks to examine the fundamental questions regarding the immigrant experience-what does it mean to be an American, and what would it take to finally become one?

Columbia Blue Glaze Theatre is an Asian-focused theatre group founded and maintained by Columbia students and Alumni. CBGT draws their cast and crew members from the East Asian community across the Greater New York City Area. To learn more about them, find them on Facebook, or follow them on WeChat: columbiablueglaze.

A Beautiful Country will be performed on the 4/27-29 at 8PM in Lerner Black Box Theatre, at Columbia University. With talkbacks after the 27th and the 28th of April.

For tickets please visit:

https://web.ovationtix.com/ trs/pr/972218

CUID: $8, Non-CUID: $10