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Location
Seattle, WA
Fiscal Year Awarded
2012
Grant or Program
National Theater Project Creation & Touring Grant
Grant Amount
$50,000
Stuck Elevator is a music-theater hybrid prompted by the real-life experience of a Chinese food deliveryman trapped in a Bronx elevator for 81 hours. Working at Happy Dragon Restaurant, he pays a $60,000 debt to smugglers for passage from China to the United States-from a country touted as the next global economic superpower to a country founded on the ideals of democracy and freedom. Five actors and four musicians tell the story of Guang, providing a personal entry point to immigration, labor, China, family obligation, and fortune cookies for an undocumented immigrant/indentured slave in 21st century America.