In the Lounge Here Comes Johnny Yen Again (or How I Kicked Punk) Alvin Eng
About This Show
Merging spoken word and acoustic punk rock raconteur styles, Alvin Eng’s Here Comes Johnny Yen Again (or How I Kicked Punk) explores the impact of opium on the Chinese Diaspora as well as NYC’s punk/counterculture world through the dual prisms of William S. Burroughs’ character, ‘Johnny Yen’––immortalized in Iggy Pop and David Bowie’s song, Lust For Life––and his own Grandfather’s opium overdose on the streets of NYC’s Chinatown.
This is the first of a Workshop Residency with additional performances on March 7, 2020 and April 18, 2020.
About the Artist
Alvin Eng is a native NYC playwright/performer. His work has been seen Off-Broadway, throughout the U.S., as well as in Paris, Hong Kong and China. While a Fulbright Specialist Scholar at City University of Hong Kong, the U.S. Consulate invited him to perform his memoir monologue, The Last Emperor of Flushing in his family’s ancestral Guangdong Province. He developed that piece, and three others, at Dixon Place. He is honored to develop a fifth work here.