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Mom, Dad, I’m Living with a White Girl
A Chinese son must tell his parents he has moved in with his white girlfriend. In a counter-narrative, the play explodes Asian stereotypes in a B-movie spoof called Wrath of the Yellow Claw.
Maria Gets A New Life (Too Good to be True)
Maria and her kids—Lisa, a pregnant teenager, and Jude, an excitable preteen—are on the run following the murder of Lisa’s rapist. As the police close in, Maria is determined to give her kids a last supper that prepares them for everything they’re going to need to survive in the world without her. - Publisher
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Production and Publication
First produced
2013, Cardinal/Kantor Productions, Toronto
Publication year
2013
Published by
Playwrights Canada Press
ISBN
9780369102904
Performed at the 2013 Summer Works Festival, Toronto ON and published under new title Too Good to Be True in 2022.
Performed at the 2013 Summer Works Festival, Toronto ON and published under new title Too Good to Be True in 2022.
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