Adaptation Of The Movie 'Yello Yellow Face'

Can theater only exist as a live performance or can it also be successfully transferred to the digital media? Since ancient times theater has been playing a big role in people’s lives. For ages, people have been gathering to see live performances as a way for them to escape their daily life routines for a while and enter a whole new reality where there are new stories to be heard and new lessons to be learned. Although the excitement of live theatrical performances when being in the same room with live actors still remains an irreplaceable experience, in the recent years with the development of new technologies, there have been successful attempts for theatrical plays being adapted to the digital screen. A very good example of such attempts is YOMYOMF network’s “Yellow Face”, a screen adaptation of the famous play by David Henry Hwang, broadcasted on YouTube in two parts. “Yellow Face” is a chronological, semi-biographical documentary that explores what race means in the United States. Despite the fact that “Yellow Face” still remains a theatrical performance, it also includes many elements of cinematography and YouTube applications.
According to Los Angeles Times, the play “Yellow Face” was first presented to an audience in 2007 at the Mark Taper Forum, and, during the same year, it was performed at New York’s Public Theater. Later, the performance was filmed on the theater stage, and some scenery and the structure of the play were changed as well as the digital effects were added for a better adaptation of the play for YouTube (Ng,