Overview

“I’m really trying to be in love with you, but I can’t stop remembering…”

Mai didn’t expect her heaven to be reliving an engagement to an unfaithful husband. He’s becoming a Buddhist monk. Mai’s daughter Tâm is desperate to understand her mother. As time slips away and dreams overlap with reality, Mai and Tâm must learn how to love each other before heaven comes for them again.

love you long time (already) is a funny and moving intergenerational epic about a Vietnamese mother and daughter grappling with their immigration to America, infidelity and first love. Through it all, their rocky relationship remains the one constant in their lives. A play about navigating love with all its sharp corners and quiet complexities.

Keywords

• Aging
• Death
• Love
• Marriage
• Memory
• Parenting/Family
• Asian Experience
• Women’s Experience
• Asian American Experience
• Off-West End