Kim's Convenience

I started to read this because I'm a regular viewer of the Kim's Convenience TV series, and I want to start by saying that the two are very different from each other. This makes a lot of sense given the very different media that they were created for, but it's worth noting.

Kim's Convenience is simultaneously heart-breaking and heartwarming, darkly funny while still being at times melancholy. Ins Choi does a fantastic job of balancing those emotions and the tension that is created by trying to be both at the same time. In the introduction to the play, Ins Choi makes a comparison to Death of a Salesman, and that's a very apt comparison - both plays look at aging men, the legacies they try to build, and the ultimately devouring nature of capitalism.