Synopsis
Sun Yat Sen / Mouth of the Dragon
Large Mixed Cast
Dr Sun Yat Sen, a leader of the Young China revolutionary movement, is being tortured and drugged by his captors to get him to confess to crimes against the Dowager Empress of China's government - or face death
In a drugged state, Dr Sun experiences grand hallucinations that take him from the court of the Chin Dynasty to just a few days before his kidnapping
He meets and is challenged by the greatest heroes in Chinese history
His life is revealed to the audience from the time he is nearly whipped to death in a Chinese classroom through his first encounter with American democracy in a Hawaiian school
By the end of the play he faces death with such powerful convictions that even his executioner is awed by his view of a free and modern China
Pulitzer Award nominated Wang Award-winning author
The David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award