Endlings

On the Korean island of Man-Jae, three Haenyeo—fascinating sea women—spend their dying days diving into the ocean to harvest seafood.  On the island of Manhattan, a Korean-Canadian playwright, wrestles with both the expectation that she write authentic stories and her own inclination to commodify her identity, but who, exactly, is she?

“Fascinating. Audacious. Deftly satirical and utterly on-target.”
– The Boston Globe

“[Endlings is] both a traditional stage work that seeks to depict people’s lives and a metafictional examination of the playwright’s own motivations.”
– The New Yorker 

“America is afraid that immigrants are going to change what it means to be American, and the truth is that we will. We always have. We immigrants throw into question the acceptable power structures in a society, because we are transformers.”
– Celine Song, in an interview by American Repertory Theatre

Playwright Celine Song was nominated for an Academy Award for the movie Past Lives.

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