Among the Dead
by Hansol Jung

Name: Among the Dead
Brand: Hansol Jung
SKU: 9780573706233
Rating: 4.21 (24 reviews)

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Highlights

Female

Male

90 mins 1970s Role(s) for Asian Actor(s) Unit Set/Multiple Settings Period Costumes Comedy

Awards & Recognition

KCACTF: Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival New Play

Synopsis

Ana is a Korean American who travels to Seoul in 1975 to retrieve her recently deceased father’s ashes.

Luke is a young American soldier fighting in the jungles of Myanmar in 1944.

Number Four is the name of a Korean comfort woman camping out on a bridge in Seoul in 1950, waiting for the return of the young American soldier who fathered her daughter.

Three separate time periods collide in a small hotel room in Korea, mediated by a shape-shifting Jesus who first shows up as a bellboy.

Among the Dead is a dark comedy about a family broken apart by betrayed promises, and finding each other again through SPAM, journals, and Jesus.

Mostly Jesus.

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Number Four Female. Teens. Korean.	female	—	Female. Teens. Korean.
Ana Woods Female. Thirty. Half Korean, American.	female	—	Female. Thirty. Half Korean, American.
Jesus As you will. Contemporary, weird, young, ancient. Chameleon.	—	—	As you will. Contemporary, weird, young, ancient. Chameleon.
Luke Woods Male. Early twenties. An American soldier.	male	—	Male. Early twenties. An American soldier.