Vietgone

Playwright: Qui Nguyen
Venue: South Coast Rep/Manhattan Theatre Club and Oregon Shakespeare/Seattle Rep
Starring: STARRING: SCR/MTC: Maureen Sebastian, Raymond Lee, Paco Tolson, Samantha Quan, Jon Hoche, Jenny Ikeda OSF/SRT: James Ryen, Jeena Yi, Amy Waschke, Moses Villarama, Will Dao.
Credits: DESIGN: SCR/MTC: SETS: Timothy Mackabee; COSTUME: Anthony Tran; LIGHTS: Jaymi Smith and Justin Townsend PROJECTION: Jared Mezzocchi. OSF/SRT: SETS and COSTUME: Sara Ryung Clement: LIGHTS: Seth Reiser: PROJECTION: Shawn Duan SOUND AND COMPOSTION for MTC/OSF/SCR/SRT: Shane Rettig

Reviews


LA Times Critics Pick! directed with controlled spunk by May Adrales

LA Times


Under the dynamic direction of May Adrales.

LA Times


The whole Manhattan Theatre Club production, from its outstanding ensemble to its resourceful director, May Adrales, is in perfect synch with Nguyen’s deranged yet heartfelt vision.

The New Yorker


“Vietgone” has many pleasures — including jazzy comic performances from an excellent cast, several in multiple roles, under May Adrales’s direction.

The New York Times


Top Ten of 2016!  May Adrales’s high-octane staging moves so swiftly and surely, you may not initially appreciate the buckets of ​stagecraft she & Nguyen throw at us scene after scene. In design and pacing, the production ransacks the aesthetics of comix and grind house, applying their flashy framing & penchant for sex, drugs and violence to a dead-serious story of war, displacement & assimilation.

Timeout