Gunpowder Man

Gunpowder Man

Now through November 25th

at California Stage

"Gunpowder Man" is the story of a young Chinese woman who, together with her twin brother, flees her homeland in 1865 when the Taiping Rebellion collapses. Disguised as a boy she works on the Central Pacific Railroad, facing and overcoming her worst fears. In the 1870s the twins settle in a mining town in the Sierra and then have to face the rising tide of racism that sweeps the West

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