How to Be a Korean Woman at Theater J

How to Be a Korean Woman

Theater J
1529 Sixteenth Street, NW Washington

How to Be a Korean Woman is a hilarious, heartfelt, and personal telling of Korean-American adoptee Sun Mee Chomet's search for her birth family in Seoul, South Korea. This poignant one-woman show - told from the perspective of an adult Jewish adoptee - uses text, music, and movement to explore themes of family, love, adulthood, and the universal longing to know one's past.

Thru - Jan 14, 2024

Show Type: Drama

Box Office: 202-777-3210

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Washington Post - Recommended

"...In one scene in Sun Mee Chomet’s autobiographical one-woman play, “How to Be a Korean Woman,” the actress, playing herself, is hauled to a jingjabang, or a bath house, in South Korea. As she watches her aunts begin their bathing rituals, she marvels at the layers of dead skin being sloughed off. “This is Korea: the home of exfoliating! Where the lifelong quest for smooth and flawless skin is more important than breathing,” she quips. A different kind of exfoliation — one less invested in vanity, more in verity — propels Chomet’s multilayered play, which recounts her journey to find her birth family, who gave her up for adoption when she was 6 months old."

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- Rhoda Feng

DC Theater Arts - Recommended

"...Director/dramaturg Zaraawar Mistry has a light touch, supporting Chomet to tell her story, her way. That includes moments of wordless movement monologues as the actor stretches her body into a gentle lunge, arms reaching outward before she draws them back into her body, toward her heart. Not quite enwrapping herself, her arms undulate, not quite into a self-hug. This intimate dance ruminates on the wordless sentiments of her longing for connection to a birth mother she’s never met. The simple, sustained choreography, too, suggests sundo, a Korean martial art and mind-body form akin to t’ai chi."

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- Lisa Traiger

How to Be a Korean Woman at Theater J