Among the Dead by Hansol Jung

When:
Thursday, May 02, 2019 Time: Mon-Thurs - 7pm, Fri & Sat- 8pm, Sunday- 3pm -
Sunday, May 26, 2019 11:00p

Where:
Theatre Exile
1340 S. 13th street
Philadelphia, PA 19147

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Admission:
$10-40

Categories:
Art, Date Idea, Film, Performing Arts

Event website:
http://www.theatreexile.org

Among the Dead is a dark and poignant comedy about a family broken apart by betrayed promises and finding each other again through SPAM, journals, and Jesus. A shape-shifting Jesus serves as the intermediary of this story, which weaves together three separate time periods through one central location – a small hotel room in Korea. Among the Dead follows a young American soldier fighting in the jungles of Myanmar in 1944; a Korean “comfort woman” in 1950s Seoul awaiting the return of the American soldier who fathered her daughter; and a young Korean American woman traveling to Seoul in 1975 to retrieve her recently deceased father’s ashes.


“Comedy of the laugh-out-loud variety is the surprising top note in Hansol Jung’s surreal, somberly titled “Among the Dead,” a smart and stinging new play that delves into painful business indeed.” – The New York Times

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