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A Perfect Bowl of Pho
A Perfect Bowl of Pho
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Author: Nam Nguyen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press (cover image may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 144 Pub. Date: 2021 ISBN-10: 0369102347 ISBN-13: 9780369102348
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About
the Play:
A Perfect Bowl of Pho
is a full-length musical with book and lyrics by Nam Nguyen,
music by Wilfred Moeschter. Journey
across the noodle of time and space as Nam Nguyen
writes a genre-bending musical history of the Vietnamese diaspora,
told through its foods – particularly the world-famous noodle soup
pho. Expect rapping ancient kings, communist spies, and dancing
sharks.
A Perfect Bowl of Pho
is a fascinating exploration of Vietnamese history through a bowl of
noodle soup. Nam Nguyen,
a procrastination-prone Vietnamese Canadian university student, sets
out with the vague ambition to write a musical about his diaspora as
embodied by food, particularly the world-famous noodle soup pho. What
follows is pure meta musical, genre-bending through thousands of
years of history, featuring rapping ancient kings, communist spies,
dancing sharks and refugees, and awkward first dates in suburbia.
However, Nam eventually finds himself caught between his different
characters as each argues what pho (the food and the show) truly
represents, and he struggles to find an answer that will satisfy
everyone – in the end, isn't this just a bunch of silly soup songs?
A Perfect Bowl of Pho
originally premiered in 2017
at the University of Toronto
Drama Festival. The show received a standing ovation and was awarded
the President's Award for Best Production and the Audience Choice
Award. It was subsequently
developed at the 2018 Paprika Theatre Festival before a new
production in 2019 at Factory Studio Theatre in Toronto and the 2022
Toronto Fringe Festival.
Cast: 12 characters
What
people say:
"Hilariously
and exhaustingly meta-theatrical… Nguyen's is a name to watch."
— Toronto Star
"A
fresh new musical that pulses with life, anarchic energy and
invention." — NOW Magazine
About the Playwright:
Nam Nguyen is a
Canadian playwright and lyricist of Vietnamese descent from
Mississauga, Ontario. He was named one of NOW Magazine's breakthrough
Toronto stage artists of 2019 following the premiere presentation of
his musical A Perfect Bowl of Pho with fu-GEN Asian Canadian
Theatre.
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