Kim's Convenience
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Mr. Kim is a first-generation Korean immigrant and the proud owner of Kim’s Convenience, a variety store located in the heart of downtown Toronto’s Regent Park neighbourhood. As the neighbourhood quickly gentrifies, Mr. Kim is offered a generous sum of money to sell — enough to allow him and his wife to finally retire. But Kim’s Convenience is more than just his livelihood — it is his legacy. As Mr. Kim tries desperately, and hilariously, to convince his daughter Janet, a budding photographer, to take over the store, his wife sneaks out to meet their estranged son Jung, who has not seen or spoken to his father in sixteen years and who has now become a father himself.
Wholly original, hysterically funny, and deeply moving, Kim’s Convenience tells the story of one Korean family struggling to face the future amidst the bitter memories of their past.
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INS CHOI is an actor, poet and playwright. His first play, Kim’s Convenience, won Best New Play and the Patrons’ Pick Award at the 2011 Toronto Fringe Festival. Since then, it has been produced multiple times in Canada, the UK and the US to sold-out runs and rave reviews. It was adapted into a TV series of the same name on CBC and Netflix for five seasons, where Choi was a writer, executive producer and co-creator. He has also written the plays Subway Stations of the Cross and Bad Parent and collectively created 2000 Candles (Brookstone), Window on Toronto, Alligator Pie and (re)Birth: e. e. cummings in Song (Soulpepper). Born in South Korea, Choi grew up in Scarborough, and now resides in Toronto with his wife and their two screenagers.
