About The Show

Premiered May 6, 2020, on Youtube.

One of our last Lounge shows before the worldwide coronavirus shut down, Alvin Eng’s Here Comes Johnny Yen Again (or How I Kicked Punk) merges spoken word and acoustic punk rock raconteur styles to explore 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 Dixon Place Workshop Residency performance was featured in the lounge on March 7, 2020, New York City

Created and Performed by Alvin Eng
Direction and Dramaturgy by Wendy Wasdahl
Special Guests: Rick Ebihara and Perry Yung from Slant Performance Group
Video Director, Editor and 1st Camera: Wrolf Courtney
2nd Camera: John Quincy Lee
Video © 2020 Wrolf Courtney
Play: “Here Comes Johnny Yen Again” © 2020 Alvin Eng

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