The debut play from Katie Đỗ, will run at the theatre from the 2nd to the 25th July.
Theatre503 has announced that director Jennifer Tang (Cymbeline, Shakespeare’s Globe) will direct the world premiere of love you long time (already) which opens next month.
Meanwhile, the four members of the cast will include: Jon Chew (The Good Person of Szechuan, Lyric Hammersmith), Tuyen Do (Shadow and Bone, Netflix), Molly Harris (Measure for Measure, Donmar) and Zheng Xi Yong (American Psycho, Almeida).
Mai didn’t expect her heaven to be reliving an engagement to an unfaithful husband. He’s becoming a Buddhist monk. Mai’s daughter Tâm is desperate to understand her mother. As time slips away and dreams overlap with reality, Mai and Tâm must learn how to love each other before heaven comes for them again.
love you long time (already) by Katie Đỗ is a funny and moving intergenerational epic about mothers and daughters, migration and memory, the ties that bind us and the cost of breaking free from them.
The play was originally workshopped and developed in the 2022 Pacific Playwrights Festival as part of The Lab at South Coast Repertory.
Alongside director Jennifer Tang, the production’s creative team includes TK Hay (Set / Costume Design), Cheng Keng (Lighting Design), Elena Peña (Sound Design), Dam Van Huynh (Movement Director), Polly Jerrold (Casting Director), Ellen Rey de Castro (Costume Supervisor) and Zoe Zimin Ho (Voice and Dialect Coach), working in association with The Sông Collective, who are also providing cultural consultancy.
Talking about the play Katie Đỗ said: “love you long time (already) follows a Vietnamese American woman attempting to understand herself and her mother as she wrestles with becoming a writer. The world of this play traverses different realms: reality, dream, and afterlife – to reflect how change can happen subconsciously, even imaginatively, when candor isn’t accessible. I’m so grateful to the team at Theatre503, the cast, the crew, and Jennifer Tang for going on this multi-layered journey with me.”
To book tickets visit: https://theatre503.com/whats-on/love-you-long-time-already/