written by Corinne Chooey, Isaac Ho, Angela Kang, Oanh Ly,

and Judy Soo Hoo

directed by Miranda Yousef

October 29th through November 27th, 2005

American Monsters 2, which kicks off the sixth season of work by the acclaimed Asian American theater company, continues the provocative and often darkly humorous examination of the underbelly of American culture started in the highly successful production American Monsters in 2000.  The newest incarnation of this series is an omnibus of five original one-act plays loosely based on Grimm’s fairy tales.  Each of these modern adaptations lifts and twists an original dark element from the classic morality tales