MRT Debuts KNYUM

Vichet Chum will make both his playwriting and acting debut at MRT with his brand new, one-man play following the story of Guy, a hotel night clerk who spends the quiet hours of the night shift studying Khmer, the language of his family’s home of Cambodia, in preparation for his first visit to the country his parents fled from decades before. Guy stumbles awkwardly toward fluency to awaken to parts of his heritage, both beautiful and excruciating, which shine through in his wildly luminous dreams. Chum, who has been working on KNYUM since he was a graduate student at Brown University/Trinity Rep (Class of 2011), says,

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Vichet Chum brings his brand new, gorgeously poetic play to Lowell, the first Cambodian-authored play in 15 years.

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