James & Eddie (2025)
Produced by
Presented by
Playwright: M.J. Kang
Directors: M.J. Kang and Elsha Kim and Katherine Ko
Venue
The Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse
Run
July 3rd, 2025 – July 12th, 2025
Synopsis
Set in 1980s Toronto, James & Eddie explores the friendship between two Korean families navigating life in an unfamiliar city. Through the eyes of Eun-Kyung, the youngest daughter in one of the families, audiences are taken on a memory-filled journey of post-war trauma, cultural invisibility, resilience, and the fragile bonds between parents and children.
With theatrical skill, honesty, and childlike wonder, James & Eddie weave moments of joy with the stark realities of immigrant life. The play is both a cultural reckoning and a tender act of remembrance, asking how families can forgive in the shadow of inherited history. (fringetoronto.com)
Cast
| M.J. Kang | Performer |
| Elsha Kim | Performer |
| Katherine Ko | Performer |
Creative Team
| M.J. Kang | Playwright |
| M.J. Kang | Director |
| Elsha Kim | Director |
| Katherine Ko | Director |
| Katherine Ko | Choreographer |
| M.J. Kang | Sound Designer |
| Annasofie 诗慧 Jakobsen | Lighting Designer |
Production
| Annasofie 诗慧 Jakobsen | Stage Manager |
| M.J. Kang | Producer |
