Reading List

Young Jean Lee's The Shipment

The following works informed Young Jean Lee's approach to writing The Shipment. To explore more of the play's themes before or after the performance, the author recommends checking them out.

Movies
Boyz n the Hood
Juice
Menace II Society

Music
The Coup, Genocide and Juice and Steal this Album
Modest Mouse, Moon and Antarctica

Books & Plays
By John Jesurun:
On New Ground
Everything that Rises Must Converge
Deep Sleep published in the Wordplays Series: 5

By Richard Foreman:
Bad Boy Nietzche and Other Plays
My Head Was a Sledgehammer: Six Plays
Unbalancing Acts: Foundations for a Theater

By Samuel Beckett:
Waiting for Godot
Endgame
Krapp's Last Tape

The Wooster Group, North Atlantic

John Ashbery, Three Plays

Comedy
Chris Rock
Original Kings of Comedy
Dave Chappelle
Richard Pryor