Letters to a Student Revolutionary

Letters To A Student Revolutionary was an adaptation of the original play by Elizabeth Wong, set in the convention of Asian American Theatre. The story follows the lives of two young adults, two very culturally different individuals, Karen and Bibi. This powerful and disarmingly amusing play is about political awakening and friendship.. Bibi is a typical jaded American rebel reluctantly on a "back to your roots" family vacation in China. Desperately, Bibi sets out to find familiar, recognizable things. Instead, she finds Karen, a young, idealistic Chinese girl who wants to improve her English. From this ostensibly innocent chance encounter, these two young women of entirely different cultural backgrounds embark on a charming, poignant 10-year correspondence, cut abruptly and tragically short by the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. This bittersweet tale seeks to make sense of history, how we participate in it and how we are overwhelmed by it. By focusing on the loves and losses, desires and disappointments of Bibi and Karen, the play explores ideas of capitalism and communism, and ultimately becomes a clarion call to remember the price of democracy.