FUSONG: A Concert Presentation
June 8, 7-8pm
Lucille Lortel Theatre
121 Christopher Street, NYC
About
FUSONG tells the story of two Chinese women in two different centuries linked by their complicated destiny. As Fusong is kidnapped from her small village in China and thrown into the dark world of San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1866, Isabel, a novelist, grapples with her books being banned and how the truth of Fusong’s story impacts her own place in the divided America of 2025. Their lives intertwine, leading them on a journey to discover their shared legacy of resilience and resistance to the status quo. Based on “The Lost Daughter of Happiness” by Geling Yan.
Join us after the show for FUSONG: Unpacked, a talkback moderated by festival curator and producer James Clements featuring Toy Johnson and members of the creative team.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Our theatre lives on the island of Manhattan.
Manhattan has always been a gathering and trading place for many Indigenous peoples, where Nations intersected from all four directions since time immemorial. It was a place to gather and sometimes to seek refuge during times of conflict and struggle. The staff and trustees of New York Theatre Workshop, Lucille Lortel Theatre, Sinking Ship, and Theater in Quarantine pay respect to all of their ancestors past, present, to their future generations.
We acknowledge that our theatre, and our work, is situated on the island of Manhattan (Menohhannet— On the Island), traditional lands of the Munsee Lenape, the Canarsie, Unkechaug, Matinecock, Shinnecock, Reckgawanc and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
We respect that many Indigenous people continue to live and work on this island and acknowledge their ongoing contributions to this area.
We encourage each of you to honor the Indigenous communities that first inhabited the land on which you’re now standing.
We would like to thank Safe Harbors NYC for contributing to this statement.