Play: Jaha Koo's "Cuckoo"
Venue: Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Date: Saturday, February 1, 2025
Time: 7:30 - 8:30 PM
Event Types: Arts & Theatre
Cost:

Description:
The Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech presents the play Jaha Koo's "Cuckoo" with two performances on Friday, January 31, 2025 and Saturday, February 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM both nights inside The Cube.

Europe-based South Korean theatre maker Jaha Koo uses video to closely interweave politics, history, and his own personal stories. Part of Koo’s Hamartia Trilogy, this play focuses on how the inescapable past tragically affects our lives today.

Three talking rice cookers — branded Cuckoo — are his conversation partners in painfully funny dialogues about the lonely lives a Korean generation faces. This intelligent, reflective, and haunting documentary theatre performance reveals a clash of Eastern and Western culture, such as the heavy personal toll of Western interference in the macroeconomic field.

General admission tickets are $25.00 for adults and $10.00 for students and youth 18 & under.

Tickets can be purchased online at https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/online/seatSelect.asp?createBO::WSmap=1&BOparam::WSmap::loadBestAvailable::performance_ids=539BC5AC-3FF1-48EC-9EA6-76BA8A308396 or in person at the box office or by calling the box office at 540-231-5300.

Performed in Korean and English with English subtitles

Please note, these performances contain references to suicide, mature language, explicit content, violence, and strobe lights. Recommended for ages 13 and up.

These performances will last approximately 60 minutes with no intermission.

The Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech is located at 330 Turner Street NW in Blacksburg, VA.

For more information, visit: https://artscenter.vt.edu/performances/jaha-koo-cuckoo.html or https://www.facebook.com/artscenteratvt or https://www.instagram.com/artscenteratvt/ or call 540-231-5300.