LA Drama Critics Circle Ted Schmitt Award (2016). There are many facets to the Vietnam War—or the American War as the Vietnamese now call it, to distinguish it from invasions of their country by the Chinese and French over the centuries. Saigon has fallen. We witness the fall of Saigon, the chaotic departure of many Vietnamese on helicopters and aircraft carriers, and their arrival in the bleak resettlement camp. “I’m no Juliet waiting on no balcony,” she raps, “I can save my own kingdom, I’m a badass bitch!”. CRITICS' PICK! "Vietgone careens wildly, threatening whiplash to heighten our amusement. KEEP US GOING by supporting 48 Hills and independent, nonprofit journalism! Even before the play begins, a red suitcase is in full view, slightly stage right, on an otherwise empty set. "Vietgone careens wildly, threatening whiplash to heighten our amusement. Vietgone playwright Qui Nguyen: And now, for someone completely different. ", "Vietgone makes you believe that epic tales of heroism and loss exist all around us in this nation of immigrants. The playwright claims in his opening speech that “this story is not about war, but about falling in love.” That assertion is reiterated later in the play when he tries to convince his father, Huang, now a septuagenarian, to talk to him about the war. Qui Nguyen is a playwright, screenwriter, and co-founder of the OBIE Award-winning Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company of NYC. South Coast Repertory’s world premiere of Vietgone by playwright Qui Nguyen is a highly anticipated event for us, as we’ve had the unique experience of watching this play’s metamorphosis since its inception. Love yourself into a cloud of bliss, with Lava flower, massage oil, churro chocolate bars, more. Playwright Qui Nguyen and director May Adrales talk about the inspiration for the play and their collaboration as they bring this new work to the stage. Their stadium workers are suffering. The drama, and the humor, slow somewhat in the second act as the characters reluctantly settle in to their new circumstances, knowing it will be for the long haul. In the opening scene, an actor representing the playwright (Tagatac) explains how the dialogue will be presented. He writes with laughter, satire, anger and profanity.". Subscribe to our newsletter for updates and winners' announcements! Nguyen’s script is filled with what Sueko calls “intentional anachronisms,” including easily the most crowd-pleasing scene in the play: An extended ninja battle that showcases the cast’s physical-comedy abilities. That tragedy underscored the message of Vietgone, which, despite the actor/playwright’s on-stage denials, is a story about the deep consequences of war—just not the ones we thought we knew. Oh, also kick-ass fights.” – Time Out New York, Read More “An unlikely intermingling of family play, history play, sex farce, action flick, and cultural critique. In Vietgone, playwright Qui Nguyen gives us a dynamic look at the Vietnam War and its aftermath from a rarely observed point of view. In Vietgone, he recounts how they met at the Fort Chaffee camp in Arkansas. For the next chapter in the family's story, Poor Yella Rednecks , it's six years later and Tong and Quang are building new lives in a foreign land called rural Arkansas. South Coast Repertory’s world premiere of Vietgone by playwright Qui Nguyen is a highly anticipated event for us, as we’ve had the unique experience of watching this play’s metamorphosis since its inception. In Vietgone, the narrative is defined by the Vietnamese, and the Americans have the walk-on parts. Nhan (Stephen Hu, left) and Quang (James Seol) in Qui Nguyen’s ‘Vietgone.’ Photo by Kevin Berne. You bet your latkes. "Vietgone is easily the freshest, most exuberantly youthful piece I've seen at MTC in ages: a punch-drunk mash-up of hip-hop, road movies, sex farce and Vietnamese-American history. ", CRITIC'S PICK! It also tends to sprawl, with the chronology becoming confusing. View the winners below, and sign up for our newsletter... See this year's winners! Free for ticket holders to the performance. Drink in delights from Kalbells, Daedalus, and Pearl Charles—plus a "no video needed" from Rochelle Jordan. Contact. The Asian country’s military overthrew its government over baseless claims of voter fraud. New movies! The preshow speech of VIETGONE is spoken by the playwright, in which we learn that the play is a love story of how Mom and Dad got together. Sports team owners, including Charles Johnson of the Giants, made $98.5 billion during the pandemic. We are community supported journalism. Quang, a helicopter pilot trained at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, commanded a unit for the South Vietnam Air Force for eight years. Best of the Bay Even as the audience files in, we are already part of the play, or rather, the exhibition. You lost a brother, I lost my whole country… I lost everything I had.”. FINAL PERFORMANCE WAS December 4th, 2016. View the winners below, and sign up for our newsletter... 48hills is proud to host the SF Bay Guardian Best of the Bay 2018! He lost his wife. ONSTAGE “You lost a brother, I lost my family. Qui Nguyen’s recent play, Vietgone, is the meet-cute story of his parents rapping, having a ton of casual sex, and eventually falling for each other in an Arkansas refugee camp in 1975. A modern twist on the All-American love story, Qui Nguyen’s (She Kills Monsters) new play Vietgone pulses with contemporary energy. By the end, however, this riotous theatrical cartoon won me over with its simple honesty. Given the tragedy of their lives—years of war, forced separation from loved ones, landing on a distant and unfamiliar shore, confinement in a camp in the middle of nowhere—it’s quite a feat that playwright Nguyen and director Jaime Castaneda have created an exuberant comedy that has the audience roaring out loud at many moments. Tickets and more info here. Should it matter that ninjas aren’t real? To her regret, her younger brother Khue (Stephen Hu, in one of his many roles) will not join her because he won’t leave the love of his life. One of the most eviscerating raps comes from Tong in the second act. After reading the script, we attended the play and we loved it. Sound familiar? Nguyen’s skillful play with language is nothing short of brilliant. Scripts include Vietgone (2016 Steinberg Award, 2016 LADCC Ted Schmidt New Play Award, 2016 Kennedy Prize Finalist); She Kills Monsters (2013 AATE Distinguished Play Award, 2012 GLAAD Media Award nom); War is F**king Awesome (Frederick Loewe Award); Soul Samurai (2009 GLAAD Media Award nom); Begets: Fall of a High Playscripts, Inc. 7 Penn Plaza Suite 904 New York, NY 10001. These cultural influences are evident here: the music by composer Shammy Dee features dynamic raps, the set design by Brian Sidney Bembridge includes huge brightly-colored comic-book style letters announcing places and dates, and several scenes are reminiscent of movies that run the gamut from Dirty Dancing and Easy Rider to Revenge of the Ninja. ... And the play ends with an … Plus: MC Escher, Black art history, and are we living in a simulation? “Vietgone” contains a sprinkling of such preachiness. Bay Guardian ArchivesShop We’re now a week and a half into busy daytime rehearsals of Vietgone, Qui Nguyen’s 2015 dramatization of his parents meeting as refugees from Vietnam in 1975. 4.6 out of 5 stars 668. 1-866-NEW-PLAY (639-7529) info@playscripts.com Using his uniquely infectious style, Full Length Play, Romantic Comedy, Comedy, Biography, 1970s, New Millennium/21st Century, Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre, WINNER! The scenes go back and forth in rapid-fire sequence from Vietnam to America, aided by black and white projections of the war. He lost his wife. But now in America, a strange new land of cowboys, hippies, and bikers, these two Vietnamese refugees just might find each other. Her mother Huong resents—after burying two husbands, birthing eight children, and surviving two wars—having to learn English, and thinks the Americans should learn Vietnamese. In the award-winning Vietgone (2015 world premiere at SCR), playwright Qui Nguyen recounted his parents’ hot and hilarious courtship in a Vietnamese refugee camp in 1975. This play explores the challenges people face in friendship when a risk of growing apart becomes a factor. Vietgone 2016-17 SEASON. Flipping the script on a tragic war’s fallout in ‘Vietgone’ Qui Nguyen's exuberant comedy at A.C.T. Lives intersect in 1975 at the Ft. Chafee, Arkansas refugee camp. Huong (Cindy Im, left) walks in on Quang (James Seol) and Tong (Jenelle Chu) in ‘Vietgone.’ Photo by Kevin Berne. It's 1975. At his urging, she brings their mother Huong (the delightfully caustic Cindy Im), who is unabashedly vocal about her disgust with the camp’s food, the incomprehensible language, and most especially the GI who is smitten with her daughter. BWW Previews: HIP HOP, SEX COMEDY FAIRYTALE VIETGONE LAUNCHES NEW SEASON at American Stage, Broadway World It's 1975. Though Vietgone is marketed as “a story about falling in love, not a story about war,” it is very much also a story about the Vietnam War, its devastating consequences, and the dignity and fortitude of its … In A.C.T.’s new “irreverent road trip comedy” Vietgone (through April 22), playwright Qui Nguyen has chosen to look at it from one particular perspective: the Vietnamese who sided with the Americans, and who escaped the fall of Saigon by the skin of their teeth to come to the United States. It is overtly rollicking and sneakily moving. "A raucous comedy by Qui Nguyen that strafes just about every subject it tackles and every character it presents [...] Mr. Nguyen's fresh and impish voice rarely lets up as he thumbs his nose at our expectations. It’s in that tension that we’ve seen a lot of new cultural productions grappling with race, identity, culture and history… asking questions about their place in this country, their place in the world.”. 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Remixing history and culture into a funny and energetic fantasia, playwright Qui Nguyen creates a contemporary twist on the boy meets girl story that The New York Times hails as “a raucous, immensely moving comedy.” As the play unfolds, the purpose of Nguyen’s linguistic gymnastics becomes clear: English-speaking audiences have to grapple with what it feels like not to understand the language that surrounds you in a strange place, and maybe share some deeper understanding of what it means to be a war refugee. History Play: The Lives and After-life of Christopher Marlowe Rodney Bolt. It’s also got walkable motorcycle props that are as badass as they are amusing. at Geary Theatre, SF Nguyen said in an interview that growing up in Arkansas with Vietnamese refugee parents, he loved hip-hop, action movies, and comic books. Atung (Will Dao) sits in front of... Plus: Will the Police Commission finally pass reforms -- and will it matter? VIETGONE First, I was delighted with—and grateful for—the opportunity to work with Natsu, again. Newsletter Alameda cartoon artist's deadpan one-liners and true-life characters provide human connection. Second, the challenge to completely reimagine the music from a specific historical/cultural lens (USA in 1975) was too great to pass up. ", "Vietgone rides a wave of profane irreverence, sprawling storytelling,spiky humor, bald stereotypes and in the end a searing personal testament that honors the people on whose soil the war was fought [...] Nguyen understands confidently that his story possesses an intrinsic weight and he doesn't need to preach. Although Nguyen’s play has a pivotal moment in world history as its backdrop, his family’s personal his-tory is at its forefront. Tong and Quang use the language of hip-hop to vent their frustrations, which adds a refreshing contemporary touch to Vietgone. $5.99 #49. Two hippies (Cindy Im and Jomar Tagatac) smoke a joint in ‘Vietgone.’ Photo by Kevin Berne. It is overtly rollicking and sneakily moving.” The Guardian By the end, however, this riotous theatrical cartoon won me over with its simple honesty. It … Christina Spiegel’s cartoons bring comic relief to our moment. Kindle Edition. But that’s how Nguyen has portrayed it in Vietgone, at Manhattan Theatre Club, as an unlikely intermingling of family play, history play, sex farce, action flick, and cultural critique. Using his uniquely infectious style The New York Times calls "culturally savvy comedy" -- and skipping back and forth from the dramatic evacuation of Saigon to the here and now -- playwright Qui Nguyen gets up-close-and-personal to tell the story that led to the creation of... Qui Nguyen. Scars of My Guardian Angel: An Epic Science Fiction & … Oh, also kick-ass fights." 48hills.org is the official publication of the non-profit San Francisco Progressive Media Center. Even Nguyen’s brilliant inversion of syntax and language echoes that technique in the groundbreaking film The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez. Ken Savage, the associate producer for the ACT, invited a broad audience to the first read-through of the script on January 23, 2018. An all-American love story about two very new Americans. Saigon has fallen. I can’t even count how many times I held my breath or clutched on to my seat. “Vietgone is easily the freshest, most exuberantly youthful piece I’ve seen at MTC in ages: a punch-drunk mash-up of hip-hop, road movies, sex farce and Vietnamese-American history. Advertise Tong (Jenelle Chu), the woman he falls for in the refugee camp, worked at the US Embassy and was granted two tickets out. of 1975. 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But now in a new land, they just might find each other. October 9, 2016 VIETGONE in The New York Times May 2, 2016 Qui, who hails from Brooklyn, NY, originally had tossed around the idea of writing a script about Vietnamese gangsters in Little Saigon. Review: Hanukkah with the Klezmatics? Ask questions about the play, the characters, and the process, and respond to the story and ideas aroused by the production. Kindle Edition. She lose her fiancé. Tropes galore come out to play — ninjas, hippie stoners, rednecks. Vietgone 3.14 - 4.8, 2018. by Qui Nguyen. Until they do, she delights in voicing her obscenity-laced opinions in front of Americans who don’t understand a word of her insults and think of her as a sweet old lady. Huang, speaking in broken heavily accented English to his American-born son, only wants to share his memories of his child’s babyhood and teenage years. When the Vietnamese characters are speaking to each other, it will be in familiar, contemporary language, even raps, that the audience can easily follow: “Whoa, there’s a lotta white people up in here?” When an American attempts Vietnamese, it will be awkward and grammatically incorrect: “Seeing you for first time was love in sight first.” And when the Americans speak English to the Vietnamese it is a jumble of common words sounding like total gibberish: “Nascar, botox, frickles.”. Quang resists being seduced by America, “I don’t want to think about where I am, a soldier lost in some foreign land.” He is obsessed about getting back to his wife and two children in Vietnam. “Badass motorbike-riding refugees roar onto the stage and into our hearts in VIETGONE… One of the most rollicking culture clash comedies ever…” The Mercury News “An unlikely intermingling of family play, history play, sex farce, action flick, and cultural critique. His plays include Vietgone (2016 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, 2016 LADCC Tim Schmitt Award, 2016 Edward M. Kennedy Prize finalist); War is F**king Awesome (Frederick Loewe Award); She Kills Monsters (2014 AATE Distinguished Play … ", "An unlikely intermingling of family play, history play, sex farce, action flick, and cultural critique. 48hills is proud to host the SF Bay Guardian Best of the Bay 2019! Malik Washington could have faced a return to prison, but at the urging of a federal judge any action has been postponed. At this Sunday Spotlight event, we will be joined by a diverse panel of historians, activists and artists to discuss varying perspectives on this contentious time in history when the country—and the world—was undergoing great change. An all-American love story about two very new Americans. presents the Vietnam War from the … Driving home from the theater, we heard news on the radio that a vet who had been treated for PTSD at a Yountville veterans’ home had taken three women staff members hostage, and then shot and killed them. The protagonist in Vietgone is a South Vietnam Air Force Captain who lands his helo there during the Evacuation. Qui, who hails from Brooklyn, NY, originally had tossed around the idea of writing a script about Vietnamese gangsters in Little Saigon. A modern twist on the All-American love story, Vietgone pulses with contemporary energy.It’s the classic boy meets girl – except this boy and girl are refugees from the Vietnam War newly settled in … In the play, although not in real life, he has a conversation with the Captain. ... 10 practice scripts for actors may be used for auditions, workshops, demo reel videos or scene work in drama class. In terms of nut and bolts, we now have a rough to not-so-rough staging of about three-fourths (some 80 pages) of the play’s text, as well as its time and space-hopping scene changes (from wartime Saigon, to an … Director Castaneda says, “A lot of my colleagues and I are part of a whole generation of artists who are either first- or second-generation American, who straddle different countries and different identities. presents the Vietnam War from the point of view of the refugees who fled to America. Yet he continues to defend the US role in the war even though he knows that in this new country he will be subject to racism: “We get to America by any desperate means/Cause they say they’ll take the poor and the weak/But does that do for refugees that look like me/peeps reminding them of their enemy?”. With this scathing refrain, Quang (James Seol), a fighter pilot turned refugee, reminds an anti-war hippie (one of many roles played by the excellent thespian-chameleon Jomar Tagatac) that Americans will never know as much about the war as the Vietnamese who endured it on their native soil. New … That's The Agenda for Feb. 8-14. ", CRITIC'S PICK! Huong (Cindy Im) embraces her daughter Tong (Jenelle Chu) in ‘Vietgone.’ Photo by Kevin Berne. It is funny, moving and well worth reading/seeing. ", CRITIC'S PICK! References to various popular American songs are scattered throughout Vietgone.Each song mentioned in the script is used in a different way, either as a fun Easter egg, a tool to layer in additional meaning to the character’s text, or a method of conveying info about the play’s time period. But now in a new land, they just might find each other. CRITIC'S PICK! 4.5 out of 5 stars 5. 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