Among The Dead

by Hansol Jung

Ana is a Korean American who travels to Seoul in 1975 to retrieve her recently deceased father’s ashes. Luke is a young American soldier fighting in the jungles of Myanmar in 1944. Number Four is the name of a Korean comfort woman camping out on a bridge in Seoul in 1950, waiting for the return of the young American soldier who fathered her daughter. Three separate time periods collide in a small hotel room in Korea, mediated by a shape-shifting Jesus who first shows up as a bellboy. Among the Dead is a dark comedy about a family broken apart by betrayed promises, and finding each other again through SPAM, journals, and Jesus. Mostly Jesus.

Genres: Plays

68 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2017

Reviews

[river · Rating 4 out of 5]

Would love to see how this is staged with the overlapping times/realities.

[Yana · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5