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Alec Adams on November 17, 2021
This year, San Jose Stage Company is all about the greats. After their run of The Great Leap, they’re back to tackle Dickens’s Great Expectations. One of the 19th century’s most iconic novels, the story of orphaned Pip’s journey through poverty-stricken England is probably a little less relevant today, in this era…
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Mike Huguenor on October 13, 2021
Jeffrey Lo has been dreaming about staging Lauren Yee’s The Great Leap since before the play was even published. “I watched a stage reading of an early draft maybe four or so years ago in San Francisco, while she was still revising and editing it,” Lo says. “For me, as an Asian…
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Alec Adams on September 29, 2021
We’re all acquainted with the magic of sports movies—timeless stories of how conflict and rivalries turn into bonds and community. The cultural footprint of the genre of storytelling is so huge, it’s a wonder we don’t see more groups bringing them to live theater. Enter The Great Leap. Playwright Lauren Yee’s comedic…
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