Fannie and Alan Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College

Stroke - Performance Piece by Chin Woon Ping

In this absurdist and comedic performance piece, Chin reveals the workings of a woman's thoughts and her emotional turmoil as she responds to medical, social, familial and her own demands. In the course of coming to terms with her experience, she connects her life to those who have suffered or explored similar dysfunction and uncovers the link between personal and political crisis.

Chin Woon Ping's plays and performance pieces include Psycho Wracks; Diary of a Madwoman; Sharp Hurt; From San Jose to San Jose and Details Cannot Body Wants. She has performed with the Pig Iron Theater Company, the Qi Shu Fang Beijing Opera Troupe, the Dartmouth Dance Ensemble, Penn Players, The Mulberry Trio, The Voice of Reason and has been featured on radio, film and television in Southeast Asia, Australia, Canada and the United States. Her plays have been published in such anthologies as Postcolonial Plays; (Post) Colonial Stages; On A Bed of Rice: Asian American Erotic Literature; Monologues for Women of Color; Playful Phoenix: Women Write for the Singapore Stage and The Naturalization of Camellia Song. She has been Fulbright Professor in Shanghai and Jakarta, Senior Fellow at the National University of Singapore, Mellon Lecturer at Bryn Mawr College, Artist-in-Residence at TheatreWorks (Singapore) and Wilkes University, and Head of the Division of Literature and Drama at the Singapore National Institute of Education. She has received fellowships and grants from the Pew Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, Swarthmore College, the City of Philadelphia Arts Fund, the Bildner Fund at Dartmouth College and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She teaches at Dartmouth College and lives in Vermont.