About the Show

Solo piece by Zoë Kim, directed by Chris Yejin, exploring Korean/American family and identity.

In this autobiographical solo performance, Zoë Kim traces the evolution of love across generations of her Korean-American family. Shifting between memory and embodiment, she brings to life the voices of her parents, grandparents, and younger self—navigating the intimate, and at times painful, terrain of connection, distance, and cultural inheritance.

The piece is directed by Chris Yejin, whose work centers diasporic identity and personal narrative. Kim’s script, drawn from her own lived experience, fuses humor, grief, and reflection in a minimalist staging that foregrounds voice, physicality, and emotional precision.

Critic Reviews (11)

"It’s not a likable thing to admit. But he wouldn’t be telling this story if he hadn’t had a reckoning with his shame."
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"When a show relies so fully on one person’s perspective, the starkness of their image should be supported, not left to grasp for attention."
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"It’s an impressive display of storytelling dexterity, the monologuing equivalent of a rodeo rope trick: Watch him tie what looks like any old knot, then pull on it to unloop the story entirely."
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"Every line is paired with athletic, interpretive movement, giving the piece an aura of beat poetry that its language doesn’t always energetically match."
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For all the horrors unsentimentally recalled, Did You Eat? is not a particularly reflective piece of work. It is a child's view of an appalling situation, long on the details of suffering and short on context and insight.
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"in its essence, an act of supreme release—a reclaiming of love from those who weaponized it"
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"What you come out with after the show is over is the personal strength of Zoë Kim...this presentation is cathartic for her, and brave, and riviting, and hopefully reflects back on you and the choices you’ve made in your life."
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"It’s one of those autobiographical shows that’s as much an exorcism for the artist as it is crafted for the audience. The message of love... may be for us, but the journey of telling the story is also for Zoë Kim."
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