Yodok Story Coming to Washington

Confirmed by a reliable source: the U.S. debut for Yodok Story will be Wednesday, September 27th at the National Theater. There will be seven shows, through Sunday, and the plans (still not final) are to move to New York and the West Coast, probably L.A., after that. Freedom House and Sen. Sam Brownback both helped bring the production here.

I had a chance to meet the director, very briefly, in April. My impression was that he’s physically very small, stylishly groomed, and intense. This will be big news in the Korean press tomorrow (it’s already started to hit the Korean language wires).