-Trees don’t have ears.
-How are you so sure?
As they attempt to flee the Best Nation in the World, North Korean sisters Minhee and Junhee are torn apart at the border. Each must race across time and space to be together again – navigating the perilous Land of the Free and the treacherous terrain of personal belief.
Food has learned to sprint. Money is so fast it doesn’t wait to be printed. Gossip travels swifter than germs.
Mia Chung’s play has its UK première in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs. Royal Court Associate Director (International) Richard Twyman directs.
Mia Chung’s theatre credits include You for Me for You (Woolly Mammoth Theatre / Company One); This Exquisite Corpse, Catch as Catch Can, Skin in the Game, an adaptation of The Orphan of Zhao and We Spend Our Lives.
Richard Twyman is an Associate Director at the Royal Court. For the Royal Court Richard’s credits include Fireworks, The Djinns of Eidgah, Phil in Space, PIIGS and A New Song.
Richard directed The Djinns of Eidgah for Rage Theatre in Mumbai as part of the Writers Bloc Festival.
His other theatres credits include Henry IV Pt II (RSC), Ditch (Old Vic Tunnels / HighTide), Sixty-Six Books (Bush Theatre) and Give Me Your Hand (the Irish Rep, New York).
Age guidance 14+
Running time: approx 1 hour 30 mins (no interval)
