Comfort Women: WHM Tribute Play
Free and open to the public: Korean-American poet and playwright Tanya Ko Hong’s short play premieres at 7:30 p.m. at the Spanish Benevolent Society - La Nacional.
In “Comfort Women,” a halmoni struggles to break her silence when an unexpected visitor shines a light on her past.
Tanya Ko Hong and Bee C.W., starring as grandmother Ae-Kyung and granddaughter Kelly-Eunmi, with Susan Hahn, Bo Mi Jo, Esther Kim, Min Kim, Ina Ko, and Dayoung Nam, bring a women’s history month tribute to the Korean women known as “wianbu” or “comfort women” to life.
Tanya Ko Hong
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Ae-Kyung
On Saturday, October 29 2022, Ko Hong debuted as an actress with an original monologue adapted from her poetry, “The War Still Within,” (dir. Gloria Zelaya) at El Barrio’s Artspace PS109.
Around The Block - Al Doblar La Esquina produced an earlier version of the play, titled “Comfort Woman”.