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No More Sad Things

Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy  /  1w, 2m

Hansol Jung

" No More Sad Thingsis a beguiling, winningly-acted fable about the kind of week-long acquaintance that can change the trajectory of your life." - Time Out Chicago

No More Sad Things

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    1w, 2m
  • Duration
    Duration
    75 Minutes
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Romantic Comedy
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

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Summary
A girl catches a last-minute flight to Maui. A boy finds girl on the shores of Ka’anapali. Something strange and something familiar pulls them closer. They have sex on the beach. They are surprised. They spend the week together. But eventually girl catches the flight back home to Akron, Ohio. The girl is thirty-two. The boy is fifteen.
History

No More Sad Things co-premiered in production by the Sideshow Theatre Company at the Biograph Theatre in Chicago, IL in November 2015 under the direction of Elly Green, and in production by the Boise Contemporary Theatre in Boise, ID under the direction of Julia Ritchey.

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Performing Groups
  • Time Period Contemporary, Present Day
  • Setting Maui, Ka’anapali Beach.
  • Additional Features No Intermission
  • Duration 75 Minutes
  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes

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REVIEWS 

"A smart, poignant and often funny play that sets you up to watch a typically post-modern, woman-centered romantic comedy, only then to subvert and satirize many of the elements of that genre." - Chicago Tribune, Read More 

"No More Sad Things is a beguiling, winningly acted fable about the kind of week-long acquaintance that can change the trajectory of your life." - Time Out Chicago, Read More 

"This well-crafted tale of an improbable yet somehow inevitable relationship is a gorgeous piece of theatre [...] Jung indeed is a master of blending, with the past and the present, the real and the theatrical, the idiosyncratically comedic and the deeply sad all weaving seamlessly into one story." - Splash Magazine, Read More 

"Hilarious and tender...the language Jung gives [Jessiee] is charming, surprising, and occasionally quite beautiful. - The Stranger, Read More

ON BREAKING CHARACTER

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    Boise Contemporary Theatre's trailer for No More Sad Things

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Authors

Hansol Jung

Hansol Jung

Hansol Jung (playwright) Productions: Wolf Play (Artists Rep, Soho Rep), Wild Goose Dreams (Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse), Cardboard Piano (Humana Festival), Among the Dead (Ma-Yi) and No More Sad Things (Sideshow, Boise Contemporary). Commissions: Public Theater (NY), ...

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