The playwright Lauren Yee has a disarming way of probing political trauma; her play “The Great Leap”
explored China’s Cultural Revolution through basketball. Her latest, “Cambodian Rock Band”—directed
by Chay Yew, starting previews on Feb. 4, at the Pershing Square Signature Center—is the first work in
Yee’s Signature Theatre residency. The story, of a father and a daughter grappling with the atrocities of the
Khmer Rouge, is told through live rock music, including songs by the psychedelic-pop group Dengue Fever.
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GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
FEBRUARY 5 – 11, 2020
