NOT YET PUBLISHED

ISBN: 978-0-573-69747-0

Lloyd Suh

Drama

3m, 2f

Steeped in the difficulty of reunification and reconciliation, American Hwangap tells the story of Min Suk Chun, who some 15 years earlier left his family in a West Texas suburb to return to his native Korea. On the occasion of his 60th birthday (hwangap), a milestone signifying the completion of the Eastern Zodiac and a type of rebirth, he returns to his ex-wife and now adult children as they struggle to reconcile their broken past with the mercurial, verbose and often exasperating patriarch now back at the head of the table. Through a tense birthday weekend filled with humor, heartbreak and half-filled expectations, this American hwangap and its aftermath bears a family not quite whole but still somehow transformed, and not quite happy but still somehow beautiful.

“A delight to watch.” —The New York Times

“Touching family drama.” —Variety

“As refreshingly original in its point of view as in its quirky humor and affecting relationships.” —San Francisco Gate

FEE: $75 per performance