from Letters from Home: A Multimedia Solo Play
In 2016, writer/performer Kalean Ung learned of a drawer in her father's study. It was filled with letters from family and friends living in desperate circumstances in refugee camps, and detailing their lives during the Khmer Rouge regime. A multimedia solo play, Letters from Home weaves togeth...
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| Summary: | In 2016, writer/performer Kalean Ung learned of a drawer in her father's study. It was filled with letters from family and friends living in desperate circumstances in refugee camps, and detailing their lives during the Khmer Rouge regime. A multimedia solo play, Letters from Home weaves together the stories her father told her of arriving in America in the 1960s as a young music student, her Cambodian family's refugee story, her own story as a biracial, first-generation American, and her experience playing Shakespeare's iconic female characters. These stories are embodied and interwoven with projections, her father Chinary Ung's original compositions, and artifacts that enshrine the people and places of this collective history. |
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| ISSN: | 1045-7909 1527-943X |