The Great Leap at Guthrie Theater

McGuire Proscenium Stage:

Lauren Yee.

Authors

• Lauren Yee

San Francisco, spring 1989. Manford Lum, locally renowned on the sidewalk basketball courts of Chinatown, talks his way onto a college team, just before they travel to Beijing for a "friendship" game. When they arrive, China is in the throes of the post-Cultural Revolution era, and Manford must juggle international politics and his own personal history.