For This Moment and Beyond: Solidarity, Sense-Making, and Survivorship at the Theater with Anna Moench’s “Man of God”

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Notes

¹ For a discussion of the recent increase in Anti-Asian violence within the context of the March 2021 Atlanta shooting incident, see Lenthang.

² See the “We See You, White American Theatre” statement at www.weseeyouwat.com/statement.

³ Arora’s “Manifesto to Decentre Theatre and Performance Studies” addresses this imperialist legacy vis à vis the academic discipline.

⁴ American Theater Magazine’s 2018 special section entitled “#TheatreToo,” discusses the longstanding issues of sexual abuse and sexism within American theater institutions.

⁵ ”Man of God” is an unpublished play script; all text citations refer to the 2017 acting edition used in Ung’s production.

⁶ Details regarding what is referred to as the “KCM incident” are scarce, but this “involved allegations that a pastor engaged in inappropriate conduct during [a] mission trip” with the Korean American Campus Mission (KCM). See Lee.

⁷ See Christensen’s study suggesting theater as a medium for education and prevention of sexual violence.

⁸ This is Kyung-Hwa’s character description at the beginning of Moench’s play text.

⁹ This is Samantha’s character description.