Carried by the River

Diana Tso’s Carried by the River is currently playing in the Extraspace at Tarragon Theatre in a production directed by William Yong for the Red Snow Collective.  It’s the story of a Chinese girl, Kai, who is abandoned by her birth mother because of the “one child policy”, adopted by a Hong Kong mother and brought to Canada as a baby.  When she’s about twenty her mother dies unexpectedly leaving her with many unanswered questions.  She travels to the province of her birth in search of.. do we ever know what we “are in search of”?

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