EMK presents Frida: The Last Night Show
Performance and Panel

This show will be performed in Korean with English supertitles.

ADMISSION & CAMPUS ACCESS:
Admission is free. Reservations are required. Campus access is limited to registered guests and USC students, staff, and faculty with current USC ID.

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DESCRIPTION:
Produced by Korea’s leading musical theatre company EMK, Frida: The Last Night Show is an virtuosic homage to Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s life and work. Marking the 70th anniversary of Kahlo’s death In a concert format featuring four female actors, the show’s first U.S. showcase stars Korea’s musical theatrical phenom Sohyang Sophie Kim performing a female-centered, coalitional identity that transcends national borders and delivers a message of hope to the audience. 

After the performance, a panel on transnational creativity and the ethics of cross-cultural representations in musical theatre will feature Sohyang Sophie Kim and Frida: The Last Night Show’s writer/director Jung Hwa Choo and producer Sophy Jiwon Kim, along with USC faculty including English and American studies and ethnicity professor David Román and School of Dramatic Arts professors Esther K. Chae and Luis Alfaro (moderator). What are the impacts and implications of musicals such as Frida, Hamilton, and SIX, in which actors perform identities from other cultures? As the entertainment industry becomes increasingly globalized and cultural texts travel beyond national borders, how do local identity politics become legible in different contexts?

Schedule:
7 p.m.: Performance
8:30 p.m.: Intermission
8:45 p.m.: Panel

Presented by the USC School of Dramatic Arts; the Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles; and USC Visions and Voices.