Kim’s Convenience, Ins Choi’s hilarious and touching debut play set in a family-run corner store, will be touring throughout the Lower Mainland and B.C. from February 13 to March 28, 2020.
Mr. Kim (James Yi), or Appa, a Korean shopkeeper in Toronto’s Regent Park area, grapples with both a changing neighbourhood landscape and the chasm between him and his second-generation Canadian offspring. This journey of a fractured but loving family confronting the future and forgiving the past is a Canadian classic in the making.
Kim’s Convenience was originally produced as part of the 2011 Toronto Fringe Festival, where it won the New Play Contest and the Patron’s Pick Award. It went on to an enormously successful run in 2012 at Soulpepper, receiving the Toronto Theatre Critics’ Award for Best New Canadian Play and spawning a nine-city national tour. The play has since been published by House of Anansi Press and has been adapted into an award-winning television series for CBC and, now, Netflix.
Ins Choi is a Korean-Canadian actor, playwright, and director known for his plays Kim's Convenience and Subway Stations of the Cross. Born in South Korea, Choi grew up in Scarborough, Ontario, and now resides in Toronto with his family. A graduate of York University’s Theatre Program, Choi has performed with Fu-GEN, Canadian Stage, the Stratford Festival, and Soulpepper.
TOUR VENUES & DATES
WEST VANCOUVER
Kay Meek Arts Centre
604.981.6335 February 13 & 14
NORTH VANCOUVER
The BlueShore at CapU
604.990.7810 February 15
MISSION
Clarke Theatre
604.629.8849 February 16
NEW WESTMINSTER
Anvil Centre
604.521.5050 February 18
SURREY
Surrey Arts Centre
604.501.5566 February 19–March 1
COQUITLAM
Evergreen Cultural Centre
604.927.6555 March 3–8
CHILLIWACK
Chilliwack Cultural Centre
604.391.SHOW (7469) March 11
MAPLE RIDGE
The ACT Arts Centre
604.476.2787 March 12 & 13
BURNABY
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts
604.205.3000 March 14 & 15
KELOWNA
Kelowna Community Theatre
250.862.2867 March 17
CRANBROOK
Key City Theatre
250.426.7006 March 19
REVELSTOKE
Revelstoke Performing Arts Centre
250.814.9325 March 21
NANAIMO
Port Theatre
250.754.8550 March 25
DUNCAN
Cowichan Performing Arts Centre
250.748.7529 March 28
Ins Choi’s Kim’s Convenience, touring from February 13 to March 28 across the Lower Mainland and B.C.
Tickets from $29 at artsclub.com or the Arts Club Box Office at 604.687.1644
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