Southern California’s South Coast Repertory Theatre unveiled the lineup for its 2015-16 season, with two prominent Asian American authors slotted into the Julianne Argyros Stage:
Qui Nguyen
VIETGONE
by Qui Nguyen
directed by May Adrales
October 4-25, 2015
In a Vietnamese refugee camp in the middle of Arkansas, a man (who plans to catch a plane to Guam and hop a boat back home to Vietnam) meets a woman (who doesn’t like greasy American food and listening to Elvis, but knows when there’s no home to go back to) and an unlikely romance begins. Using his hip-hop, comic-book style that Variety calls “infectious fun”—and skipping back and forth from the fall of Saigon to the here and now—Qui Nguyen gets up close and personal to tell the story that led to … Qui Nguyen.
Sandra Tsing Loh
THE MADWOMAN IN THE VOLVO
by Sandra Tsing Loh
directed by Lisa Peterson
January 3-24, 2016
In ancient times, tribal women went alone to caves during menopause. Today, the 50 million menopausal women in America turn to cheery self-help books. As for Loh and her friends, they are determined not to go quietly into their sixth decade but instead opt for a desert festival of debauchery and half-nude stoners! “Burning Man” is only one hilarious side trip on this bumper car ride through mid-life “madness.” Based on the NPR commentator’s enormously popular memoir that Booklist calls “hilarious, comforting and enlightening.”
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