DESCRIPTION
Chinese restaurant deliveryman Kuang gets trapped in an elevator.
Working
at Happy Dragon Restaurant, he pays off his $60,000 debt to smugglers
for his passage from China to the United States; from a country touted
as the next global economic superpower to a country founded on the
ideals of democracy and freedom.
After three days, he emerges dehydrated and terrified into a New York media blitz.
Stuck
Elevator is an operatic solo performance prompted by this real-life
experience of an undocumented immigrant/indentured slave in 21st
century America.
IN DEVELOPMENT
Stuck
Elevator is currently being developed by composer Byron Au Yong and
hip-hop playwright Aaron Jafferis as part of a 2009-2010 NYU A/P/A Intitute Artists-in-Residence Program.
Stuck Elevator is a project of Creative Capital with additional support from API/2, Artist Trust, and 4Culture.