Plays by Author - Philip Kan Gotanda

Ballad of Yachiyo

Philip Kan Gotanda

Nick Hern Books

A dramatic tale of a young Japanese girl's sexual awakening, and ultimate social downfall, in Hawaii's harsh sugar-cane plantation system of the early twentieth century. In this moving elegy to his own aunt...

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Day Standing on Its Head

Philip Kan Gotanda

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 4 Female

Harry Kitamura, a successful law professor, begins to find his life unraveling when he starts researching a paper about his involvement in a campus strike in the early 1970s Odd characters with violent a...

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Ballad of Yachiyo

Philip Kan Gotanda

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 4 Female

The time is 1919, a period of limited prosperity for Japanese families toiling in the sugarcane fields of the Hawaiian islands Yachiyo, a young peasant girl, is destined for life in the fields and for a ...

$13

The Wash

Philip Kan Gotanda

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 5 Female

Nobu Matsumoto has separated from his wife Masi at her request, though both of them are in their sixties Nobu's newfound bachelor life is regularly interrupted by Masi who comes by to pick up and drop of...

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The Wind Cries Mary

Philip Kan Gotanda

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 3 Female

Loosely based on Hedda Gabler, this is set on a college campus in the late '60s. Amidst the turbulent anti-war demonstrations and beginnings of Asian-American identity politics, we follow an extraordinary...

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Yankee Dawg You Die

Philip Kan Gotanda

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 0 Female

Bradley Yamashita is one of the new breed of Asian-American actors. Highly political and outspoken, he will only take on acting roles that are dignified and unstereotypic He has recently starred in a sm...

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