Endlings
A bold new work by up and coming Asian American playwright Celine Song
Endlings
...the Korean-Canadian-American playwright whisks us across borders, plunges us into the depths of the ocean, and endeavors to convey the immigrant experience and advocate for the concept that everyone has a right to just exist.
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Endlings
A bold new work by up and coming Asian American playwright Celine Song
Why see Endlings?
The Off-Broadway Debut of Endlings
After a stunning world premiere at Cambridge's American Repertory Theatre in February 2019, up and coming playwright Celine Song's new work Endlings makes its Off-Broadway debut as part of the New York Theatre Workshop's 2019/20 season. Song once again partners with dynamic young director Sammi Cannold, whose creative vision manifested an immersive 4100 gallon aquarium on stage during the ART production.
Song weaves an exquisite tale around the haenyeos or 'sea women' of South Korea, who dive deep below the waves to gather seafood to sell. Set on the island of Man-Jae as well as the island of Manhattan, the story follows three of these sea women and a Korean-Canadian playwright struggling with the notion of authenticity and cultural honesty in her own work. Fascinating and eye opening, Endlings poses questions about identity and the obligation to one's own heritage.
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1 reviews, average rating: (5.0 Stars)
David Charles
The Endlings gives voice and challenges
It is the hoped for job of theatre to entertain, enlighten, entrance, engage and to challenge the audience in their comfortability.
This play a does all of these with a consummate panachè. The scale of the play is deftly realised by a bravura set which splashily tantalises and then reveals.
Firstly, our trio of usually voiceless over 70’s actors (F) easily take the audience into their world in a comfortable ‘First Act’ whilst sowing the seeds through the understated writing.
Comfortability and fourth wall-ness are then eschewed by arch gear changes which draw us in and intentionally make us cozy theatre types aware of unfinished business of our world and of the world in general. The world we see gets more zany and twisted. A show which felt similar is its disruptive narrative nature was the UK Royal Court’s The Low Road. The themes of age, legacy, and unconscious racism within liberal circles, are all woven together into a fine yet strong cloth. ... Read more
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