Eng, Alvin - Mao Zedong: Jealous Son

Alvin Eng received the Franklin Furnace Future Of The Present 1998 award. The performance “Mao Zedong: Jealous Son” took place on June 12, 1998.

Mao Zedong: Jealous Son by Alvin Eng

June 12, 1998

Alvin Eng, who created and performed Over the Counter Culture for Franklin Furnace's 1991 In Exile" series, is a playwright/storyteller, performance artist, and journalist and Yoav Gal is a composer. The two collaborate in Mao Zedong: Jealous Son (An Abstract Portrait), a new, multi-media opera that features four singers portraying Mao Zedong, the late founder of the Chinese Communist Party, at four different stages: "Teenage Mao", "Comrade Mao", "Chairman Mao", and "Dead Mao", alongside digitized images of the late Chairman himself.

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