This dark absurdist comedy follows two Korean-Canadian women who die after accidentally falling into a construction pit in Queen’s Park, Toronto. They now have their ghost-selves to ponder the purgatory in bizarre spaces like Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill. Meanwhile, the fate of the two ghosts are being negotiated between The Canadian Bureau and the Korean Reaper.
This absurd, yet critical story jumps between comedy and drama, and is narrated by a mysterious “playwright” (inspired by traditional Korean storytellers, not the actual playwright), who intervenes, disrupts, and asks difficult questions.
Dead Korean Girl Comedy Show asks: How does “having an Asian woman’s body” put you at risk? Can we be liberated from violence when we no longer have bodies? Is there a comedy that exists within this liberation?