Sideshow Theatre Company will launch its 2021 season with a one-night-only benefit screening of its 2018 hit You For Me For You, written by Mia Chung and directed by ensemble member Elly Green.
The archival recording of this imaginative production will stream Sunday, Feb. 28, at 7 p.m. CST via SideshowTheatre.org, as well as the company's YouTube and Twitch channels.
The plot is as follows: Two North Korean sisters plan an elaborate escape from the "Best Nation in the World," only to be separated at the border. Now in two strange and separate worlds filled with outrageous characters, they must navigate barriers of language and bureaucracy, reckon with the ways that culture and country can shape us, and discover that survival requires sacrifice.
You For Me For You features Sideshow company members Patrick Agada (Man from the South), Katy Carolina Collins (Liz) and Helen Joo Lee (Minhee), with Gordon Chow (Doctor, Well, Rice Musician), John Lu (Smuggler, Frog, Yongsup) and Jin Park (Junhee).
Tickets (pay-what-you-can) are currently available at SideshowTheatre.org . NOTE: Sideshow is also partnering with Paramount Catering to offer meal add-ons the night of the benefit. Prices start at $40, including delivery for one person, and meals can be donated to those in need starting at $30. Vegetarian and meat options are available. Sideshow will be providing its own donation of free meals to those in need through Farm, Food, Famlias during the month of March, and the meals patrons donate will be added to this number.