| Title | : | Jar of Fat (Yale Drama Series) |
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| ISBN | : | 0300268017 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780300268010 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 |
| Publication | : | Published September 5, 2023 |
In a fantastical fairy-tale world, two Korean American sisters are deemed too fat to fit in their family grave. Will the sisters’ close bond survive under the pressure of their community and fretful parents, who will spare no effort to make them tinier?
Jar of Fat , the fifteenth winner of the Yale Drama Prize, is a phantasmagorical, absurdist Korean American tale about the allure and danger entangled within the quest for beauty and thinness. Both laugh-out-loud funny and deeply troubling, Seayoung Yim’s play burns through the accumulated rage that anti-fat bias produces to reclaim what it steals from us every grace, space, possibility, and breath.
Jar of Fat (Yale Drama Series) Reviews
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I love this play. The ties to what it means to be a Korean American, the toxic yet often comedic beauty standards of Korean culture, and the anthropomorphism’s of slices of bread! This play was a quick read, it was super fun and just as impactful. I do wanna reread the play someday to try and understand what the meaning behind the glowing surfaces are? Perhaps no meaning at all? Overall very solid read and I loved how the playwright chose to keep in original Korean sayings and phrases. Very impressive.
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ultra charming, i would LOVE to see this in person.
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read for mccarter
i love weird east asian media
i wonder how productions of this have managed the appearance changes and all the other weird shit that goes on -
Quite on the nose don’t ya think
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in many ways this reminded me of “the substance”
