Yankee Dawg You Die (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Philip Kan Gotanda
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: End of the twentieth century
- Setting: Hollywood, California
- Principal Characters: Vincent Chang, Bradley Yamashita
- Genres: Social realism, Drama
- Subjects: Acting or actors, Minorities, Identity, Men, Stereotypes, Entertaining or entertainers, Asian Americans
- Locales: Hollywood, CA
The Play
Yankee Dawg You Die begins and ends with Vincent Chang and Bradley Yamashita, two Asian American actors of different generations, in a private conversation on the balcony of a Hollywood Hills home while an entertainment industry party takes place inside. Nine scenes in two acts reveal one year of their relationship during which they move from initially feeling their differences acutely to their growing awareness of their similarities as actors, as American-born men of Japanese descent, and as humans full of powerful ambitions and abiding insecurities.
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