A Girl Named Sue at Color Arc Productions at Trinity Street Theatre

Dates: (2/24/2017 - 3/12/2017 )

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Color Arc Productions at Trinity Street Theatre

901 Trinity Street
Austin,TX 78701

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Color Arc Productions is proud to present the world premiere of a A Girl Named Sue, new play by Vietnamese-American playwright Christine Hoang with songs by award-winning Korean-American singer/songwriter BettySoo.

This is a story of love and identity told through theatre, music, and poetry. Directed by award-winning Director Karen Jambon, A Girl Named Sue follows the life Vietnamese-American college student Sue Nguyen. Through Sue’s experiences, we explore relationships between Asian and Black communities in America, friendship and strain between men and women of color, ties between immigrant Americans and first-generation Americans, and love between parent and child.

Christine Hoang chose four songs from BettySoo's body of work to create the story arc for this new play. BettySoo will perform these songs live when A Girl Named Sue world premieres in Austin from February 24 - March 12, 2017 at Trinity Street Theatre.

This will be the FIRST bilingual play in Austin, Texas to feature scenes with Vietnamese and English-speaking characters on stage. For patrons who do not speak Vietnamese, these bilingual scenes are very easy to understand as the "translations" naturally occur throughout the English & Vietnamese conversations between mother and daughter.

A Girl Named Sue is set in a quirky, eclectic coffee shop. Award-winning scenic designer Ann Marie Gordon, will adorn these coffee shop walls with original commissioned artwork by Austin’s renown spray paint artists Eleanor “Niz” Herasimchuk and Federico Archuleta.

KLRU-TV, Austin PBS is filming the making of A Girl Named Sue for Season 8 of its Emmy-award winning documentary series Arts In Context. We welcome audience members from all prior shows to return for a FREE Community talkback following our closing night show on Sunday, March 12, 2017 at 7:30pm. KLRU, Austin PBS will be in the theatre to film this discussion about the themes in the play and the creative process.

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