OC Theatre Guild’s Libby Nicolay gets the inside scoop on “Colonialism is Terrible, But Phở is Delicious”…
Read full article | » Buy Tickets | » More Info“I’ve had a really weird career,” Dustin H. Chinn warned. Starting out in the sketch improv world, Chinn transitioned to writing plays after joining the distinguished Ma-Yi Theater Company Writers lab – home to, as Chinn impressively puts it, “the largest collection of Asian American playwrights in the history of recorded spacetime.”
“He wondered where the boundaries of food appropriation lie, if at all, and how we can respectfully cross those boundaries while honoring cultures outside of our own.”
“It’s really important that the voice keeps evolving in the American theatre,” Long said, adding that supporting the growth of the American canon increases diversity and representation in our future storytelling.”
“There’s something special about staging a Vietnamese story in the heart of Orange County, home to the world’s largest Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam”
“Chinn said he hopes to see this play spark questions and conversations that continue long after the play ends, and hopefully over a local bowl of phở. As a Seattle-raised, New York native, he was quick to gush over the extra bit of something only found in true, SoCal phở. Chinn put it simply, “There is nothing like Orange County phở.”’
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