Bad Parent
by Ins Choi

Name: Bad Parent
Brand: Ins Choi
SKU: 9780573709838
Rating: 4 (6 reviews)

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Highlights

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90 mins Present Day Role(s) for Asian Actor(s) Unit Set/Multiple Settings Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes Comedy

Synopsis

Every parent feels like a bad parent at least some of the time.

Just when you think you have a handle on it, everything changes.

Norah and Charles are trying to navigate their life as parents of a toddler but are still figuring out who they are in relation to their son, to each other and to the audience.

An honest, no-holds-barred portrait of young parents struggling to find their way.

Press Reviews

"Deliciously hilarious... Choi has chosen a wildly different style of comedy for his latest work. While Kim’s Convenience draws its humour from the realism of the everyday, through the intergenerational fault lines of an immigrant family, Bad Parent pulls laughter from its inherent theatricality."
— Toronto Star

"Choi’s latest play — the hotly-awaited follow-up to his smash hit Kim’s Convenience — stages the destruction that parenthood wreaks on a young couple’s marriage and their individual psyches... As with Kim’s Convenience, the success of Bad Parent lies in Choi’s keen observation of human foibles and his deft capacity to play the line between comedy and drama... Bad parents, no. Excellent play, yes."
— Intermission

"A witty and painful portrait of a marriage... At only 75 minutes with no intermission, the play has rarely a dull moment."
— Vancouver Sun

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Charles Man. He is married to Norah.	male	—	Man. He is married to Norah.
Nora Woman. Played by the same actor playing Norah. She works as a nanny and speaks with a foreign accent.	female	—	Woman. Played by the same actor playing Norah. She works as a nanny and speaks with a foreign accent.
Dale Man. Played by the same actor playing Charles. He is Norah’s colleague at work. In the premiere production, Charles/Dale was played by a Taiwanese-Canadian actor and Norah/Nora was played by a Filipinx-Canadian actor. As such, Nora, the nanny, had a Filipinx accent but none of the other characters had accents. In future productions, the casting is open to any ethnicities with two considerations: 1) The male actor must be of colour. 2) Nora, the nanny, must be from a culture that makes sense based on the casting of Norah, e.g. if the female actor has Zambian heritage and can speak with an authentic Zambian accent, then Nora the nanny can be from Zambia. Understandably, some script adjustments regarding references to Nora’s country of origin will inevitably follow, e.g. song lyrics, lullaby, food references, etc.	female	—	Man. Played by the same actor playing Charles. He is Norah’s colleague at work. In the premiere production, Charles/Dale was played by a Taiwanese-Canadian actor and Norah/Nora was played by a Filipinx-Canadian actor. As such, Nora, the nanny, had a Filipinx accent but none of the other characters had accents. In future productions, the casting is open to any ethnicities with two considerations: 1) The male actor must be of colour. 2) Nora, the nanny, must be from a culture that makes sense based on the casting of Norah, e.g. if the female actor has Zambian heritage and can speak with an authentic Zambian accent, then Nora the nanny can be from Zambia. Understandably, some script adjustments regarding references to Nora’s country of origin will inevitably follow, e.g. song lyrics, lullaby, food references, etc.
Norah Woman. She is married to Charles.	female	—	Woman. She is married to Charles.