Stages Theatre Company had approached Bao back in 2019 about a stage adaptation of his story, but because of COVID-19 delays, it wasn’t until 2022 that they connected with Luu Pelletier through the Vietnamese writers’ group, the Sống Collective. The 60-minute play opens Sept 30 and runs through Oct 23, and fans of the book can expect the same center story but with an expanded world created by playwright Jessica Luu Pelletier. Through the little details, he and illustrator Thi Bui show us parents who are refugees from Vietnam, a child who grows up with strangers pointing out his family’s differences, and a household that comes together over a dinner made from the same fish they caught that morning, drizzled in sauce flecked with carrots and chili pepper.Ī Different Pond is a simple tale but a profound one, and for the first time, it’s coming to the theater in a world premiere by Stages Theatre Company in collaboration with Theater Mu. Across 32 pages in the Caldecott-honored children’s book, A Different Pond, Twin Cities author Bao Phi tells the story of a father and son who go fishing one early morning on a Minneapolis lake.
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