By Lloyd Suh
Directed by Eric Ting
2023 Pulitzer Prize Finalist
In the wake of the Chinese Exclusion Act, an unlikely family carries invented biographies and poems of longing on an arduous journey from rural Taishan to Angel Island Detention Center, in hopes of landing in San Francisco Bay. Intimate and epic, The Far Country examines the true cost of selling the past for the promise of a brighter future.
The Far Country will be Yale Rep’s 2023–24 WILLPOWER! production. Yale Rep’s annual education initiative includes three morning matinee performances of The Far Country for high school students from New Haven Public Schools, entirely free of charge, May 14, 15, and 16. For more information on the program, please contact Senior Artistic Producer Amy Boratko at amy.boratko@yale.edu.
Production support for The Far Country is provided by Yale’s Binger Center for New Theatre.
Special performances
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Pre-Performance Discussion
May 8, 2:00 pm
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Post-Show Discussion
May 11, 2:00 pm
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Audio Description
May 11, 2:00 pm
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Touch Tour
May 11, 2:00 pm
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ASL
May 11, 8:00 pm
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Open Caption
May 18, 2:00 pm
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Meet the Artists
Creative Team
Lloyd Suh
Playwright
Lloyd Suh
Lloyd Suh is also the author of The Heart Sellers, which premiered in February at Milwaukee Rep, and will play at the Huntington Theatre in November. Other plays include The Chinese Lady, Bina’s Six Apples, Charles Francis Chan Jr.’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery, American Hwangap, and more, and have been produced across the country, with Ma-Yi, Atlantic, The Public, Alliance, Children’s Theatre Company, Magic, Long Wharf, Denver Center, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and more, including internationally at the Cultural Center of the Philippines and with PCPA at the Guerilla Theatre in Seoul, Korea. He is the recipient of the Steinberg Playwright Award, the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, the Horton Foote Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a Resident Playwright at New Dramatists and was elected in 2016 to the Dramatists Guild Council.
Eric Ting
Director
Eric Ting
Eric Ting directed the world premiere of Lloyd Suh’s The Far Country at Atlantic Theatre Company in 2022, the same year he staged Between Two Knees by the 1491s at Yale Rep. His Off-Broadway credits include work at Manhattan Theatre Club, Soho Rep, Public Theater, Signature Theatre, and Brooklyn Academy of Music. Regional: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, California Shakespeare Theater, Denver Center Theatre Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Long Wharf Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Goodman Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Alliance Theatre, American Repertory Theater, Round House Theatre. International: Singapore Repertory Theatre, Singapore International Festival of Arts, NYU Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Center, Holland Festival. Awards: OBIE Award, TBA Awards, Connecticut Critics Circle Awards.
