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In 1834, Afong Moy, a teenager from Guangzhou, China, was brought to the US and exhibited as the first “Chinese lady” to visit America. The public gawked as she used chopsticks, made tea and showed off her bound feet. In, playwright Lloyd Suh reverses the gazes, imagining Moy’s impressions of Western society as she tours the 19th-century US.
As their platonic relationship deepens, she makes a startling request of him that tests the boundaries of what one person can do for another.Fatuma Adar made a splash in 2022 with, her Dora Award–winning musical, set in Toronto’s Little Mogadishu, about a Somali family adjusting to life in Canada. Now, Adar is back with more stories, songs and witty observations on the pressures of Black excellence—a topic she knows all about.
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