Yellow Face

In David Henry Hwang's play, Yellow Face, the playwright tells a fictionalized story based on his own real life experience of backlash for casting a white Brit as an Asian character in the play...

Yellow Face is a semiautobiographical play that describes the story of a playwright who wrote a play based in Asia and cast a white man in the lead role: that of an Asian man. There are many...

DHH's father, HYH, is the character that dies in the course of the play. DHH, of course, is David Henry Hwang, and HYH is Henry Y. Hwang. It's not a plot point that we see occur, but it is...