Description
What if I said I am not what you think you see? A southpaw boxer is on the verge of their pro debut when their wife signs the adoption papers for a Korean boy. The boy's original adoptive father was all set to hand him over to a new home... until he realizes the boy would have no "dad." Caught in the middle, the child launches himself in a lone wolf's journey of finding a pack he can call his own. Wolf Play is a mischievous and affecting new play about the families we choose and unchoose. It is published in Methuen Drama's Lost Plays series, celebrating new plays that had productions postponed due to the Covid-19 outbreak and the global shutdown of theatre spaces.
A messy and affecting new play by Korean-American playwright Hansol Jung, exploring the need for familial connection in the wilds of 21st century America.
About the Author
Hansol Jung is a playwright from South Korea. Productions include Wild Goose Dreams (The Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Theatre Royal Bath), Wolf Play (NNPN Rolling Premiere: Artists Rep, Mixed Blood, Company One, Soho Rep), Cardboard Piano (Humana Festival at ATL), Among the Dead (Ma-Yi Theatre), and No More Sad Things (Sideshow, Boise Contemporary). She has received commissions from The Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre, National Theatre in UK, Playwrights Horizons, Artists Repertory Theater, Ma-Yi Theatre and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Her work has been developed at Royal Court, New York Theatre Workshop, Hedgebrook, Berkeley Repertory, Sundance Theatre Lab, O'Neill Theater Center, and the Lark. Hansol is the recipient of the Hodder Fellowship, Whiting Award, Helen Merrill Award, Page 73 Fellowship, Lark's Rita Goldberg Fellowship, NYTW's 2050 Fellowship, MacDowell Artist Residency, and International Playwrights Residency at Royal Court.
Reviews
Jung is in a class of her own... The play simultaneously celebrates our extraordinary capacity for love, exposes our nastiest inclinations toward selfishness, and admonishes the injustices of our social systems. * Broadway World *
Thoughtful and funny...brings the distracting, confusing noise of the internet to a funny and sensitive story of lonely hearts in Seoul * The Guardian (on Wild Goose Dreams) *
Book Information
ISBN 9781350185067
Author Hansol Jung
Format Paperback
Page Count 88
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 96g
A messy and affecting new play by Korean-American playwright Hansol Jung, exploring the need for familial connection in the wilds of 21st century America.
About the Author
Hansol Jung is a playwright from South Korea. Productions include Wild Goose Dreams (The Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Theatre Royal Bath), Wolf Play (NNPN Rolling Premiere: Artists Rep, Mixed Blood, Company One, Soho Rep), Cardboard Piano (Humana Festival at ATL), Among the Dead (Ma-Yi Theatre), and No More Sad Things (Sideshow, Boise Contemporary). She has received commissions from The Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre, National Theatre in UK, Playwrights Horizons, Artists Repertory Theater, Ma-Yi Theatre and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Her work has been developed at Royal Court, New York Theatre Workshop, Hedgebrook, Berkeley Repertory, Sundance Theatre Lab, O'Neill Theater Center, and the Lark. Hansol is the recipient of the Hodder Fellowship, Whiting Award, Helen Merrill Award, Page 73 Fellowship, Lark's Rita Goldberg Fellowship, NYTW's 2050 Fellowship, MacDowell Artist Residency, and International Playwrights Residency at Royal Court.
Reviews
Jung is in a class of her own... The play simultaneously celebrates our extraordinary capacity for love, exposes our nastiest inclinations toward selfishness, and admonishes the injustices of our social systems. * Broadway World *
Thoughtful and funny...brings the distracting, confusing noise of the internet to a funny and sensitive story of lonely hearts in Seoul * The Guardian (on Wild Goose Dreams) *
Book Information
ISBN 9781350185067
Author Hansol Jung
Format Paperback
Page Count 88
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 96g
