Bang Kok

Bang Kok is a 1996 play by American playwright David Henry Hwang. The ten-minute piece was commissioned as part of Sean San Jose's Pieces of the Quilt, an evening of plays related to AIDS and people suffering with the disease.^[1] Bang Kok concerns two businessmen who share stories of prostitution rings in Thailand climaxing in one of the men confessing to his friend he has contracted AIDS. At one point the story is interrupted by the story of the Thai prostiute who passed on the disease.

Pieces of the Quilt opened in 1996 at the San Francisco Magic Theatre, but Bang Kok was not included due to its specific casting needs.

Currently, Bang Kok is not published.

References

↑ "Pieces of Life with AIDS Linked in Short Plays". San Francisco Chronicle. 2009. Retrieved 2009-06-09.

Works by David Henry Hwang

Full-length plays	FOB (1980) Family Devotions (1981) Rich Relations (1986) M. Butterfly (1988) Face Value (1993) Golden Child (1996) Peer Gynt (1998, with Stephan Muller; from Ibsen) Tibet Through the Red Box (2004, from Sis) Yellow Face (2007) Chinglish (2011)

Short plays	The Dance and the Railroad (1981) The House of Sleeping Beauties (1983, from Kawabata) The Sound of a Voice (1983) As the Crow Flies (1986) Bondage (1992) Trying to Find Chinatown (1996) Bang Kok (1996) Merchandising (1999) Jade Flowerpots and Bound Feet (2001) The Great Helmsman (2007) A Very DNA Reunion (2010)

Film/television	Blind Alleys (1985, with Kimball) M. Butterfly (1993) Golden Gate (1994) The Lost Empire (2001) Possession (2002, with Jones and LaBute, from Byatt)

Music theatre	1000 Airplanes on the Roof (1988, with Glass and Sirlin) The Voyage (1992, with Glass) The Silver River (1997, with Sheng) Aida (2000, with Woolverton & Falls, John and Rice, from Verdi) Flower Drum Song (2001, with Rodgers and Hammerstein, from Fields, Hammerstein, and Lee) Ainadamar (2003, with Golijov) The Sound of a Voice (2003, with Glass) Tarzan (2006, with Collins, from Burroughs) Alice in Wonderland (2007, with Chin, from Carroll) The Fly (2008, with Shore)

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