Lisa Peterson: a bird on a wire. (theatrical director)

November 1997: From among the numerous novel plays running in the looks Angeles area, pick sum of two units (Pay attention: there will be a quiz.) single in kind is a West Coast premiere at East West Players, the Asian-American company in bohemian Silver Lake; the other, a world premiere commissioned by way of South Coast Repertory for its inferior Stage season in suburban Costa Mesa.
East West's Ikebana (the title imputes to the art of flower arrangement as practiced forward the islands of Japan), by way of Brown University graduate scholar Alice Tuan, sends its eight characters hurtling abstractly within 15 different locales ...