A HISTORICAL DRAMEDY.

For Immediate Release. Contact JuneSoo Ham (213) 394-6825 or [email protected] for inquiries/comps

May 24, 2017

In a unique blend of contemporary and folk theater, The King’s Language retells a culturally specific story about the genesis of a nation’s formative growth as a people yet ultimately serves to reexamine the universal human experience of language. It is told with whimsy through rhythmic beats of a native drum punctuated with dialogue, song and movement. This Korean musicality performed mostly in English playfully traverses culture to incite awareness in audiences of a fundamental human tool we often take for granted—casting a spotlight on what we risk as a species if it is eroded.

Performance Run
Sacred Fools – Second Stage
6320 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90038
6/9 @ 5pm
6/14 @ 6:30pm
6/17 @ 5:30pm
6/23 @ 6pm
6/24 @ 1pm

WRITER & DIRECTOR’S BIO
Chris Yejin is a first-generation Korean American who has been working steadily as a theatre director, actor and writer for both theater and film. She helmed the world premieres of the original musical I Do for You at the Complex Theater in Hollywood; Your Final Moment at Group PAN; Three Girls, Their Dreams, The War at Korean Cultural Center; and Ahn’s Three Daughters / Midnight Romance / His Ladies at Space GG/PAN in Los Angeles. As an actor, she performed in Fractured, Joy Joy Nail Salon (Tribeca 2017), Spa Night (Sundance 2016) and DOL (Sundance 2012). Strongly influenced by both Korean and American culture, she has assimilated her experiences and given it voice through her work.

PRODUCER’S NOTE
After briefly meeting her before the New Year, Chris reached out to me for coffee out of the blue in late January. She was very ill for over a month, and told me of a play about King Sejong that she had finished writing while bedridden. She went on about it, piquing my interest at one point with Sejong’s fascinating logic for how he specifically created the Korean alphabet. She lamented how much work she had on her hands putting this production together by herself. There was an awkward silence as the air hung with expectancy—she was clearly baiting, but I struggled between my lack of experience of ever having produced a play before and the opportunity of educating myself on my heritage. The latter swayed me, so I agreed to help her; she burst with joy. I hope you have a reaction of similar magnitude when you see this. I’m all about people bursting.
.:JuneSoo Ham

Tickets can be purchased online @ http://hff17.com/4503.

A HISTORICAL DRAMEDY.

The King's Language