Like the real-world immigrants who build businesses in a new country, the play is scrappy and inventive in creating something entirely new, at times making something out of nothing
starts with one character on stage alone. Ma, the matriarch of a Chinese Canadian family running a restaurant in a small town, is still pregnant and full of hope, coaxing her husband to dance. When he won’t, she turns her formidable charm toward getting him to notice the boombox she found at a garage sale for a “very good deal.”
Ma is the archetype of a hard-working, immigrant entrepreneur who scrambles every day for slim margins and needs to be tough on her kids to keep it all together. In that first scene, she flips back and forth between Mandarin and English , and while the presence of her family is all around, she is physically alone. We see her. She deserves to be seen.
The reality that every small Canadian town has a Chinese restaurant reflects how our fortunes are all linked. It also means restaurant workers somehow built a cuisine together while working in isolation, facing the pressures of being one of only a few Chinese families in town, if not the only one.
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