love you long time (already)

“Beautifully mundane and painfully familiar.” – London Pub Theatres

“A moving, funny and epic debut play... The world of this play traverses different realms: reality, dream and afterlife – to reflect how change can happen subconsciously, even imaginatively, when candor isn’t accessible.” – BroadwayWorld

“Mixing naturalism and fantasy, Katie Đỗ’s debut is conceptually inventive. The play spans several decades in the life of one family, and mixes naturalism with dreams, fantasy and interior life.” – The Guardian

“A masterclass in writing, this one-act play packs a punch and leaves you wanting more... captur[es] all the intricacies of a mother daughter relationship in just 85 minutes.” – Everything Theatre

“This is a love story at its heart between mother and daughter, despite differences, despite disappointment. It is also a love story between two couples who find their lives growing in different directions. If this sounds like heavy material, perhaps it is, but writer Đỗ find[s] the humor in every situation, even as we move through forty years of family conflict...  Ends on a moving, yet uplifting note.” – LouReviews

“One of the play’s greatest strengths is the authenticity of its cultural detail... [It] asks its audience to navigate multiple layers of memory, identity and family history at once, reflecting the complexity of the world it portrays. Even so, its emotional honesty and cultural specificity make a strong impression. It creates a portrait of the Vietnamese American diaspora that is deeply personal and showing how migration, cultural identity and traditional family values become woven into the rhythms of everyday life, shaping the ways love, duty and belonging are expressed across generations... that are rarely represented on UK stages.” – Sound Behind Curtain

“A truthful exploration of an ESEA family through love, betrayal and reconciliation and a production that invites tears, laughter and reflection at the same time.” – A Youngish Perspective