{"id":61869,"date":"2013-02-25T17:52:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T22:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=61869"},"modified":"2023-01-24T14:09:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T19:09:56","slug":"la-times-reviews-christmas-in-hanoi-featuring-joseph-kim-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/02\/25\/la-times-reviews-christmas-in-hanoi-featuring-joseph-kim-96\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Times reviews Christmas in Hanoi featuring Joseph Kim &#8217;96"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><\/em>Written by Eddie Borey, the cross-cultural family drama <em>Christmas in Hanoi<\/em> features Joseph Kim &#8217;96 in one of the lead roles.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_61870\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/02\/Joseph-Daugherty-CHRISTMAS-IN-HANOI-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61870\" class=\"size-large wp-image-61870\" title=\"Joseph-Daugherty-CHRISTMAS-IN-HANOI-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/02\/Joseph-Daugherty-CHRISTMAS-IN-HANOI-2-600x396.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/02\/Joseph-Daugherty-CHRISTMAS-IN-HANOI-2-600x396.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/02\/Joseph-Daugherty-CHRISTMAS-IN-HANOI-2-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/02\/Joseph-Daugherty-CHRISTMAS-IN-HANOI-2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-61870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this scene from the play <em>Christmas in Hanoi<\/em>, members of the Ganley family, including grandson Lou (Joseph Kim &#8217;96, left) visit a spirit medium to deal with hauntings in their family. Photo by Michael Lamont.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In her <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> review, F. Katherine Foley notes that the play, staged by the East West Players, &#8220;is very much a family drama, but echoes of the catastrophic &#8216;American War,&#8217; as it is known in Vietnam, reverberate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 610px;\" width=\"610\" \/>\n<h3>Alumni in Entertainment Panel<\/h3>\n<p>After the March 10 performance of <em>Christmas in Hanoi,<\/em> actor Joseph Kim &#8217;96 joins Chris Donovan &#8217;92, senior VP with The CW network; John Murchison, vice president, miniseries, HBO; and Marco Black &#8217;92, line producer and unit production manager for <em>CSI: Miami<\/em> and <em>CSI: Vegas,<br \/>\n<\/em>for a discussion about their work.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Discounted tickets are available through the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/eastwestplayers.org\">East West Players website <\/a><\/strong>or call 213-625-7000. Use ticket code <strong>Bates26<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>For more information: Office of Alumni Engagement at <em>alumni@bates.edu<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr style=\"width: 610px;\" width=\"610\" \/>\n<p>Kim, who performs under the stage name Joseph Daugherty, plays the American-born grandson of a Vietnamese grandfather, George. Years before, George fled his native country with his daughter, Oanh (who has since died but who haunts her family), and Oanh&#8217;s American husband, Philip Ganley.<\/p>\n<p>In the play, George, Philip, Lou, and Lou&#8217;s sister, Winnie, return to Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Spirits of Vietnamese war dead \u2013 &#8216;angry ghosts&#8217; deprived of ritual and resting places \u2013 drift around the play&#8217;s periphery,&#8221; Foley writes. &#8220;And when those angry ghosts fix their fury in the person of Philip, creepy events unfold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/arts\/culture\/la-et-cm-christmas-in-hanoi-20130218,0,1526817.story\">Read the review in the<em> Los Angeles Times<\/em>, Feb. 18, 2013.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Eddie Borey, the cross-cultural family drama Christmas in Hanoi features Joseph Kim &#8217;96 in one of the lead roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":61870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,11010,133,11009],"tags":[11051,6135],"class_list":["post-61869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-arts","category-creativity","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-music-tag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61869"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98515,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61869\/revisions\/98515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}