←Recommendations of Moon Bear

  • Christopher Gould: Moon Bear by Nina Ki
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    a wonderful blending of two siblings’ coming-of-age with Korean folk characters. As always: some adventurous producer should take this play on!

    a wonderful blending of two siblings’ coming-of-age with Korean folk characters. As always: some adventurous producer should take this play on!

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  • Enid Brain: Moon Bear by Nina Ki
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    Yasss to seeing nonbinary representation in a play that isn't fully about their gender identity and trauma with it! Also a really sweet and lived-in sibling relationship that warmed my heart

    Yasss to seeing nonbinary representation in a play that isn't fully about their gender identity and trauma with it! Also a really sweet and lived-in sibling relationship that warmed my heart

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  • Nick Malakhow: Moon Bear by Nina Ki
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    Beautiful, beautiful piece! I loved tracking the simultaneous theatrical worlds of Silver/Richie/Dad and Bear. The moment they met was was so powerful, poignant, and such a perfect bookend to the piece. Nina Ki combines a wry sense of humorous, fabulistic/fantastical tropes and devices, and an incredibly moving human heart in Silver to create this transcendent piece. The exploration of gender, family, sense of self, and being an outsider in one's immediate sphere is complex and uniquely presented. I sincerely hope I get to see "Moon Bear" onstage in the future!

    Beautiful, beautiful piece! I loved tracking the simultaneous theatrical worlds of Silver/Richie/Dad and Bear. The moment they met was was so powerful, poignant, and such a perfect bookend to the piece. Nina Ki combines a wry sense of humorous, fabulistic/fantastical tropes and devices, and an incredibly moving human heart in Silver to create this transcendent piece. The exploration of gender, family, sense of self, and being an outsider in one's immediate sphere is complex and uniquely presented. I sincerely hope I get to see "Moon Bear" onstage in the future!

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  • Unicorn Theatre: Moon Bear by Nina Ki
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    This play is a FINALIST for the 2020-2021 In-Progress New Play Reading Series at Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri. It is our pleasure to support MOON BEAR.

    This play is a FINALIST for the 2020-2021 In-Progress New Play Reading Series at Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri. It is our pleasure to support MOON BEAR.

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  • Maximillian Gill: Moon Bear by Nina Ki
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    A glorious melding of the fantastic and the real. The real world story is poignant, intense and heart-breaking at times. The fable is funny, imaginatively realized, and goes places I never expected. The two stories enrich each other and comment on each other in startling ways. When they converge, a special type of magic happens. Original and compelling work.

    A glorious melding of the fantastic and the real. The real world story is poignant, intense and heart-breaking at times. The fable is funny, imaginatively realized, and goes places I never expected. The two stories enrich each other and comment on each other in startling ways. When they converge, a special type of magic happens. Original and compelling work.

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  • Shaun Leisher: Moon Bear by Nina Ki
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    I absolutely love plays like this!! Plays about the power of storytelling. The telling of ancient stories and how we need to make new ones to make sense of ourselves currently. Ki brilliantly weaves the magical and natural in this wonderful story of finding our true selves and our true power.

    I absolutely love plays like this!! Plays about the power of storytelling. The telling of ancient stories and how we need to make new ones to make sense of ourselves currently. Ki brilliantly weaves the magical and natural in this wonderful story of finding our true selves and our true power.

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  • Gina Femia: Moon Bear by Nina Ki
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    A beautiful play that explores mythology, family and ourselves. Sometimes told through metaphor deeply rooted in reality, sometimes breaking our perceptions of what should be to allow in what is, this play is timely and necessary. Recommended with all my heart.

    A beautiful play that explores mythology, family and ourselves. Sometimes told through metaphor deeply rooted in reality, sometimes breaking our perceptions of what should be to allow in what is, this play is timely and necessary. Recommended with all my heart.

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  • Ellen Koivisto: Moon Bear by Nina Ki
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    This is a play about the power of stories -- stories of birth, magic, gender, family, and futures -- and about how we live and die, make good decisions or bad, based on the tales we tell ourselves. This particular narrative is about a pair of siblings with no one else to turn to, and a whiny bear who gets a god to change it into a human. What initially seem like two different plots turn out to be the same, and the story told glows with magic and love and possibility. This is a beautiful piece in every way.

    This is a play about the power of stories -- stories of birth, magic, gender, family, and futures -- and about how we live and die, make good decisions or bad, based on the tales we tell ourselves. This particular narrative is about a pair of siblings with no one else to turn to, and a whiny bear who gets a god to change it into a human. What initially seem like two different plots turn out to be the same, and the story told glows with magic and love and possibility. This is a beautiful piece in every way.

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