Our Perspective: Asian American Play Readings 2019 Reading Three

• K Beauty or You Have to Take Care of It by Preston Choi, directed by Jonald Reyes. The perfect Korean skincare routine is out there…waiting for you…You Have to Take Care of It.

• The F*ck House by Susan H. Pak, directed by Daniella Wheelhouse. A Korean-American teen and her best friend navigate the terrors of the Midwestern suburbs. Now entering junior high, all Mo wants to be is “normal,” and assimilate into invisibility. Unfortunately, this will alienate her best friend, who only wants to be “special.” Will their friendship survive?

• Kung Fu Zombies vs. Cannibals by Saymoukda Vongsay, directed by Marie Tredway. Sometime in the future civilization has become littered with zombies and cannibals. Two Laotian women from opposite ends of the world are brought together by a mysterious orphan. Their journey, framed under the Five Buddhist tenets, is told through an amalgamation of severed heads, forced kisses, human steaks, and a chorus of gangster Buddhist monks.