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Among the Dead

  • Hansol Jung
  • Full Length Play, Dark Comedy, 1950s, 1940s / WWII, 1970s
  • 1M, 2F, 1M or F
  • ISBN: 9780573706233

"With this outraged, deeply compassionate play, Ms. Jung is kicking, and expanding our understanding."

The New York Times

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dark Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: 1950s, 1940s / WWII, 1970s
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Alcohol, Drugs, Smoking, Mild Adult Themes, Gun Shots, Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
Ana is a Korean American who travels to Seoul in 1975 to retrieve her recently deceased father's ashes. Luke is a young American soldier fighting in the jungles of Myanmar in 1944. Number Four is the name of a Korean comfort woman camping out on a bridge in Seoul in 1950, waiting for the return of the young American soldier who fathered her daughter. Three separate time periods collide in a small hotel room in Korea, mediated by a shape-shifting Jesus who first shows up as a bellboy. 

Among the Dead is a dark comedy about a family broken apart by betrayed promises, and finding each other again through SPAM, journals, and Jesus. Mostly Jesus.
REVIEWS:

CRITIC'S PICK! "With this outraged, deeply compassionate play, Ms. Jung is kicking, and expanding our understanding."

 The New York Times

"Hansol Jung offers a unique brand of storytelling."

 Theatre in the Now

"[Hansol Jung] is a smart writer [...] who is intuitive about structure, original in vision and powerful in her tapping into the untold story of history [...] Among the Dead is magical."

 Theatre Is Easy

Premiere Production: Among the Dead premiered at the HERE Arts Center in a production by Ma-Yi Theater Company in New York City in November 2016 under the direction of Ralph B Pena.

Characters

  • Casting: 1M, 2F, 1M or F
  • Casting Attributes: Role(s) for Asian Actor(s)

  • LUKE WOODS - Male. Early twenties. An American soldier.
    NUMBER FOUR - Female. Teens. Korean.
    ANA WOODS - Female. Thirty. Half Korean, American.
    JESUS - As you will. Contemporary, weird, young, ancient. Chameleon.

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    Ana is a Korean American who travels to Seoul in 1975 to retrieve her recently deceased father's ashes. Luke is a young American soldier fighting in the jungles of Myanmar in 1944. Number Four is the name of a Korean comfort woman camping out on a bridge in Seoul in 1950, waiting for the return of the young American soldier who fathered her daughter. Three separate time periods collide in a small hotel room in Korea, mediated by a shape-shifting Jesus who first shows up as a bellboy. 

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