September Newsletter

COFFEENEWS is a one-hour program with two "news": a play and a musical. Plus coffee.

Presented at 7pm on the first Monday of every month at the Golden Corpse Theater. Every performance of COFFEENEWS will include 3 parts.

1. Part 1 will be a "Coffee Play", a short play featuring a story about history, legends, origin, or something more abstractly connected to a particular coffee. Every audience member will receive a small coffee cup of that particular coffee to consider during the show.

2. Part 2 is a 10-20 minute reading of a NEW PLAY. This may be a complete play, or an excerpt of a longer work. Playwright usually in attendance. Audience feedback is encouraged through an online/written interface.

3. The finale is another 10-20 minute reading, this time of a NEW MUSICAL. Writers and composers usually in attendance. Again, may be a complete work, though more likely an excerpt. This reading will feature live music from the show.

FROM THE ASIAN STORY THEATER LIBRARY

VIDEO: Watch COUNTED in full on Youtube!

COUNTED is a bittersweet story about a lonely man who is actually looking forward to a visit from a census worker, because he has a special problem. He's an accountant, and he is familiar with some of the quirks of America's record keeping system. Especially for people who don't necessarily have all the normal paperwork in hand, for whatever reason. It seems he's never actually been counted in ANY census, which presents a particular challenge for everyone involved.

MUSIC: New recording of “La Yurei Yokai”, a highlight of ASIAN SCARY THEATER (2023)

The song “La Yurie Yokai” will be available on Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon, and other streaming services by the end of the month.

About the AST Library

A recent and ongoing effort to build out the catalog of Asian Story Theater's past productions. Afforded by support for training, equipment, and talent by the Prebys Foundation, this includes video recordings of past productions dating back to 1989. As part and supplemental to those productions, we have a considerable archive of original music. Beginning with this newsletter, each month we will share links to one video, and one musical recording. We think you will find evidence of some remarkably talented artists. I hope you enjoy this bit of AST (and world) history.

𝘈𝘚𝘛 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘣𝘺𝘴 𝘍𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘭, 𝘊𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘢𝘯 𝘋𝘪𝘦𝘨𝘰.