The Aluna Café Reading Series
June 17, 2024
About the play: Dead Korean Girl Comedy Show is a bilingual (Korean & English) play that takes absurdity all the way into purgatory. Using the vessel of comedy and with references from Korean folk lore, the play investigates and reveals the emotional turmoil beneath diaspora women’s bodies. Come and experience notions of 흥 (a playful and joyous, rhythmical energy) and 한 (intergenerational, spiritual, deeper kind of pain) of Dead Korean Girls!
How it works: The readers for the play are chosen from the audience a few minutes before the cold reading… that could be you! Stay tuned on our Instagram page @alunatheatre to catch the description of the characters!
The Theatre Centre Cafe will be open for beverages and snacks. Rumour has it that a special cocktail for the evening will be available…
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About the playwright: Emily Jung is an interdisciplinary arts worker working with themes around labour (and rest). She was the Associate Technical Artist for Hypothetical Baby by Rachel Cairns and Projection Designer for Between a Wok and a Hot Pot by Amanda Lin. She works at The Theatre Centre as Director of Communications. She is the co-founder of the conceptual artsworker collective ‘Labour in the Arts’. Her essay, Korean Seniors Don’t Care for Bingo, is available online at Choa Magazine. Occasionally she uploads absurdist comics on her Instagram @minmilyjung.
Jennifer Jungwon Park is a Korean-Canadian writer who works in film programming and children’s media. As a collaborator on Dead Korean Girl Comedy Show, she attended the Polyphonic Residency at rice&beans Theatre in 2023.
We can’t wait to share this special space with you!
This reading is produced by Aluna Theatre with the support of The Theatre Centre.
The development of this script was made possible in part with the support from the Polyphonic Residency 2023 by rice & beans theatre. The creators of this play would like to thank the Korean Cultural Centre in Ottawa for providing a space to write in 2022. This script received the Recommender Grants for Theatre Creators from the Ontario Arts Council. A special thanks to The Toronto Fringe and Nightwood Theatre.
June 17, 2024 at 7:00 PM