DID YOU EAT? (밥 먹었니?) is Zoë Kim’s autobiographical journey through love’s many forms—how it’s learned, given, and reflected inward. In a nimble and tender solo performance, Zoë shapeshifts into the souls of her family through a landscape of memories where tears and laughter collide. It’s not just a story, but a reckoning—weaving through the textured threads of Korean/American identity, belonging, and healing. DID YOU EAT? (밥 먹었니?) is a poetic love letter to the inner child, and hopefully yours too.
The fact that Kim tells the story of her upbringing not with rancor and resentment, but rather with acceptance and understanding, seems almost unfathomable. But she does, and she tells it with her whole body, moving nearly the entire time. (The intricate, sometimes balletic, sometimes aerobic, choreography is by Iris McCloughan.) It’s as if she’s processing her emotions through with each carefully controlled step, turn, twist, and sweep.
There is no slow reveal of hidden information, no trickle of showing, not telling, that may come from watching multiple characters interact with one another. Throughout the piece, Kim embodies different members of her family — Umma, Appa, her two grandmothers, herself as a child — and her physicality is impressive; choreographer Iris McCloughan also gives Kim body language to express the sensation of being overwhelmed, whether by love or by depression.
| 2025 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
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