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Eggshell; or Vỏ Trứng

“Everything's coming up roses at the Ly family's Christmas Eve dinner. That is until Rose arrives, hoping to make a good impression, as she's meeting her fiancé's family for the first time. Despite her best efforts, the mood turns frigidly vicious when secrets are brought to light, forcing everyone to confront the fragility of their individual nature.“

Eggshell; or Vỏ Trứng tiptoes between farce, dark comedy, thriller, and tragedy as it follows a hauntingly dysfunctional family and unearths the fangs of internalized whiteness, self-acceptance, and the lengths we go to in order to survive.

Meet the playwright

Anthony Doan (he/they) is a queer, first-generation Vietnamese American theatre artist currently based in the Bay Area. Recognized as semi-finalist in the 44th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival, he is a part of More Más Marami's Writer Launchpad and Contemporary Asian Theater Scene's inaugural AAPI Playwrights Festival, both to be held in July. Through an anti-racist, culturally-informed lens, they strive to viscerally entertain and challenge audiences, provoke political thoughts, and inspire people to empathetically listen to the world in a different vibration.

This staged reading was performed at Convergence Arts Center on June 2, 2024.