Yellow Face (by David Henry Hwang)

One of the Read Harder Challenges this year was to read a play by an author of color, so I chose Yellow Face by David Henry Hwang.

It's a comic, metatextual play about, among other things, the casting of Jonathan Pryce as an Asian man in a production of Miss Saigon, and it mixes real-life incidents and characters with fictional ones. I would love to see this performed, but reading it was hugely enjoyable as well.

Hwang also wrote M. Butterfly, which sticks in my head because of the movie version. I watched it when I was in high school so god knows how I oversimplified it, but I would love to experience more of Hwang's work.