Details
Item details
Date
August 12, 2023 2:00PM
Location
Luminary Arts Center
Name
THE KUNG FU ZOMBIES SAGA: SHAMAN WARRIOR & CANNIBALS
Description
A mainstage world premiere by Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay
Directed by Lily Tung Crystal
Told in two chapters, the Kung Fu Zombies Saga: Shaman Warrior & Cannibals pairs Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay’s award-winning Kung Fu Zombies vs. Cannibals (2013) with its new prequel, Kung Fu Zombies vs. Shaman Warrior. Unfolding entirely in the mountains of Laos, Shaman Warrior follows Akha shaman Arun from girlhood as she grapples with her spiritual gifts, the demons that follow her, and the monsters emerging from within the mountains. Then in Act Two, we return to an adapted Cannibals where Lao American Sika is on a quest to release her dead parents’ ashes in her Motherland — however, her journey between Minneapolis and Laos isn’t without its challenges.
“In the Kung Fu Zombie-verse, the zombies represent unconsciousness. They represent things that come back and haunt you. And to me, they represent the bombs that were dropped during the Vietnam War that did not explode — this period of nine years where U.S. pilots just dropped bombs on Laos in this secret, proxy war. I thought that this metaphor would be a good way to get people to talk about this legacy,” Saymoukda says. “This play was written for people who have a relationship to ancestral worship, shamanism, Buddhism, spirits, ghosts, and pasts thathaunt them. This is a play written with Laotians in mind.”
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