American Hwangap
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 9, 2009
Closed Jun 7, 2009

Playing at
The Wild Project

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

American Hwangap is Lloyd Suh's comedy, set in a West Texas suburb where a Korean American family prepares for the return of the husband and father who left them 15 years earlier to go back to his native Korea. Having chosen to return to the U.S. to celebrate his "hwangap" -- the Korean expression for the traditional, much-revered milestone of one's 60th birthday -- patriarch Min Suk Chun sets off all manner of comic and heart-wrenching speculation and suspicion amongst his wife and grown children about the real reason for his homecoming. That one of them should end up sitting naked in a tree before the "hwangap" is concluded is just part of what makes this family reunion so memorable and unique.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:

The Wild Project
195 E 3rd St
New York, NY 10009

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

A Korean birthday celebration -- or "Hwangap" as it is called -- should be a joyous, festive occasion, with family and friends celebrating the accomplishments of the honoree. However, a number of complications beset the one in Lloyd Suh's amusing yet poignant comedy American Hwangap, being given a first-rate production by The Play Company and Ma-Yi Theater at The Wild Project.

Patriarch Min Suk Chun (James Saito) left his wife and three children 15 years ago in America while he returned to Korea. His U.S. homecoming in a Texas suburb in 2008 is a bittersweet reunion with the family he abandoned, exposing the emotional scars that they all bear.

Ralph (Peter Kim), at age 29, still lives in[...]

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Reviewed by Dan Bacalzo on May 18, 2009