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Vietgone

  • Qui Nguyen
  • Full Length Play, Romantic Comedy, Comedy, Biography, 1970s, New Millennium/21st Century
  • 3M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573706479

"Vietgone careens wildly, threatening whiplash to heighten our amusement. By the end, however, this riotous theatrical cartoon won me over with its simple honesty."

Los Angeles Times

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Romantic Comedy, Comedy, Biography
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: 1970s, New Millennium/21st Century
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Smoking, Strong Language, Drugs, Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre

  • Accolades:
  • WINNER! LA Drama Critics Circle Ted Schmitt Award (2016)
    WINNER! ATCA/Steinberg New Play Award (2016)
An all-American love story about two very new Americans. It's 1975. Saigon has fallen. He lost his wife. She lost her fiancé. But now in a new land, they just might find each other. 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.
REVIEWS:

CRITIC'S PICK! "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."

 The New York Times

CRITIC'S PICK! "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. Oh, also kick-ass fights."

 Time Out New York

"An unlikely intermingling of family play, history play, sex farce, action flick, and cultural critique. It is overtly rollicking and sneakily moving."

 The Guardian

"Vietgone makes you believe that epic tales of heroism and loss exist all around us in this nation of immigrants."

 TheaterMania

CRITIC'S PICK! "Vietgone careens wildly, threatening whiplash to heighten our amusement. By the end, however, this riotous theatrical cartoon won me over with its simple honesty."

 Los Angeles Times

"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. He writes with laughter, satire, anger and profanity."

 The Star Tribune

Premiere Production: Vietgone premiered at the South Coast Repertory Theatre in Csta Mesa, CA in October 2015 under the direction of May Adrales.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Role(s) for Asian Actor(s)

  • QUANG
    TONG
    ASIAN GUY, AMERICAN GUY, NHAN, KHUE
    ASIAN GIRL, AMERICAN GIRL, THU, HUONG, TRANSLATOR, FLOWER GIRL
    PLAYWRIGHT, GIAI, BOBBY, CAPTAIN CHAMBERS, REDNECK BIKER, HIPPIE DUDE

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    An all-American love story about two very new Americans. It's 1975. Saigon has fallen. He lost his wife. She lose her fiancé. But now in a new land, they just might find each other. 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.

    		$24.95

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