When the play “Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven” premiered in NYC last year, there was not a moment the audience wasn’t either laughing or left speechless by the audacity of its author, Young Jean Lee.

It opened with a man slapping her in the face (repeatedly, until it became sadistically funny), included Korean women miming their own deaths (by, say, a chopstick to the eye), and a white couple with hilariously mundane arguments (”When I say that you have sub-par intelligence,” the girl said to her boyfriend, “I don’t mean that you’re stupid… What I mean is that you are just right on the borderline of being smart enough for me”).

The Prospect-Lefferts Gardens playwright does appreciate a straight story — just not on stage. “Because theater is a live art form, I like it to have a startling effect on me,” she says. “I kind of want to be fucked with.”

Plenty of others do too, because that show, which poked fun at Korean and white Americans, was as successful as an Off-Off Broadway show can get — it’s now touring the world through November of ‘08. Her last (similarly provocative) play, “Church,” is going to be remounted at The Public in January. And while working on her next show (about “hip-hop and African-American identity politics”), she’s also serving as an artist-in-residence at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange, where she’ll be hosting an evening of performance she curated this weekend.

“Radiohole and the National Theater of the United States of America taught me how to make theater,” she says. The former will be presenting a work-in-progress about cult leader/jug-band musician Mel Lyman and the hatchet-wielding prohibitionist Carrie Nation, and the latter will be performing what they’ve billed as their most famous lecture. “The Jester of Tonga” is based upon Joseph Silovsky’s time in the Pacific nation. “He’s built this amazing robot for it,” says Lee, who vouches for all three performances. “I think all the work is really funny.”

Friday and Saturday at 8pm, BAX, 421 Fifth Ave. at 8th St., bax.org, $8-15 (sliding scale). Silovsky photo by Richard Termine.

Also certifiably entertaining is “Hamlet” by the Czechoslovak- American Marionette Theatre — but how could it not be? It’s performed on Jane’s Carousel in Dumbo by actors who wield beautifully carved wooden puppets and sing all of the play’s major soliloquies as if they were folk or folk/punk songs by Nick Drake and Billy Bragg. And though it’s The Bard’s most famous tragedy, the liberties taken in this quick-tempoed version make it more lighthearted and fun — even for the kids. There was still plenty of fidgeting among them, but the precocious 6-year-old I sat next to enjoyed it as much as me.

Through Nov. 25, 56 Water St. near Main, smarttix.com, $12-19. Photo by Jonathan Slaff.