David Hurst takes a look at The Great Leap:
After its well-received world premiere in February at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, followed immediately by a run in March with the same cast and design team at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Lauren Yee's The Great Leap is now having its New York debut with a new cast and design team at The Atlantic Theater Company's Stage 2 space. Winner of the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award, The Great Leap is an unlikely drama about a Chinese-American high school basketball star whose real-life family drama plays out in Beijing against the backdrop of the Tiananmen Square massacre in June 1989. It's a story about chasing impossible dreams in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. . . . |
