THE RICE EATERS (BBTF)

BY YIDE CAI

Fan Gao, his family, and friends are Chinese workers trapped in a factory in Shenzhen's Da Feng village. Their job is to recreate Van Gogh paintings for their clients from Europe and all over the world. They can paint Starry Night in half an hour but get paid very little. They want to escape, paint their own works, and be free. When their number one buyer from Amsterdam threatens to end their orders, threatening the workshop's operations, the painters take matters into their own hands. ​

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Presented by the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival at AMT Theater in New York City; Co-Produced by Christie Chang and Gregory Keng Strasser

ARTISTS

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Written by Yide Cai

Directed and Co-Produced by Gregory Keng Strasser

Scenic and Props Design by Qingan Zhang

Lighting Design by Xiangfu Xiao

Costume Design by Angela Zhang

Sound Design by Jake Eisner

Intimacy and Violence Director: Kimi Handa Brown

Production Stage Manager: Zoe Feng

Stage Manager: Sherry Wang

Co-Produced by Christie Chang

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Presented by the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival (General Manager: Rick Sayers, Festival Director: Lenore Skomal, Director of Production: Sarah Schetter, Lighting Programmer: Peter Papangelopoulos

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Photography by Christie Chang

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CAST​

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(in order alphabetically)

Bryan Chan, Jonon Gansukh, Louise Heller, Ronald Kuang, Karen Li, Sydney Lo

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PRESS

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amNY - TO DO: The Rice Eaters -- A New Play

TheaterMania - THE RICE EATERS by Yide Cai

Broadway World - Cast Revealed for the Off-Broadway Premiere of The Rice Eaters by Yide Cai

Broadway World - The Rice Eaters to Premiere at Broadway Bound Theatre Festival This August

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