Kim's Convenience

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Kim's Convenience is a 2011 play by Ins Choi, about a Korean-owned convenience store in Toronto's Regent Park neighbourhood.[1] It won the Best New Play award at the 2011 Toronto Fringe Festival, and was remounted in 2012 by Soulpepper Theatre.[2] That production won two Toronto Theatre Critics awards in 2012, for Best Actor in a Play for Paul Sun Hyung Lee and Best Canadian Play.[3] It was a nominee for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play in 2012.

The script was published by House of Anansi Press in 2012.[4]

As of 2013, the play is being staged on a national theatre tour in Canada,[4] and has been optioned for development into a possible television series.[4] Actor Daniel Dae Kim has also expressed interest in staging it in the United States.[4]

Original cast

  • Appa - Paul Sun-Hyung Lee
  • Umma - Jean Yoon
  • Janet - Esther Jun (Fringe production)
  • Janet - Grace Lynn Kung (Soulpepper production and National Tour)
  • Jung - Ins Choi
  • Rich, Mike, Alex, Mr. Lee,- André Sills (Fringe production), Clé Bennett (Soulpepper production)

Soulpepper production directed by Weyni Mengesha; Fringe production directed by Ins Choi.

Notes

  1. ↑ http://www.soulpepper.ca/performances/12_season/kim's_convenience.aspx#notes
  2. ↑ http://kimsconvenience.tumblr.com/
  3. ↑ http://arts.nationalpost.com/2012/05/31/kims-convenience-gets-five-thumbs-up-at-toronto-theatre-critics-awards/
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "Kim's Convenience drawing TV interest, Ins Choi says". CBC News, July 7, 2013.
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