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The world premiere of DMV-based performer and playwright Tuy\u1ebft Th\u1ecb Ph\u1ea1m\u2019s Dinner and Cake <\/em>is a powerful play that sets up a familiar context\u2014in-laws from different cultural backgrounds engaged in an awkward dinner together\u2014with a quietly devastating denouement. Directed by Everyman Theatre\u2019s associate artistic director Paige Hernandez, the family drama is a character study in miscommunication, the things best left unsaid, and feelings of wishing to belong. It\u2019s also an understated satire that discusses colonialism, capitalism, cultural appropriation, white saviorism, and white feminism through stilted conversations.<\/p>\n

Dinner and Cake <\/em>is set in Washington, DC, in 2000, on the one-year anniversary of the marriage of Matthew and Thuy, who are absent due to a delayed flight. The Tr\u1ea7ns have flown in from Vietnam for the celebration hosted by their inlaws, the Drummings. M\u1ef9linh, who has just moved to DC, agrees to act as the translator for the extended uncomfortable dinner. Coaxed by her white boyfriend that this favor may benefit her early career in law, M\u1ef9linh has no idea what\u2019s to come when she joins the two couples for cake and tea at the Drummings\u2019 home.<\/p>\n

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Helen Hedman as Mrs. Joyce Drumming and Tuy\u1ebft Th\u1ecb Ph\u1ea1m as Mrs. Tr\u1ea7n in \u2018Dinner and Cake.\u2019 Photo by Teresa Castracane Photography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the opening scenes, M\u1ef9linh, played with warmth, sarcastic asides, and occasional exasperation by Carolina \u0110\u1ed7, meets Joyce and Murray Drummings at their home to await the arrival of the Tr\u1ea7ns. While the Drummings lived in various Asian countries for over twenty years due to Murray\u2019s diplomatic work, they demonstrate that cultural connection does not translate to understanding. For example, they lived in Vietnam for over three years and never learned to speak a word. This is why they rely on the Vietnamese American M\u1ef9linh to serve as their translator. The Drummings\u2019 need to be well-liked by the Tr\u1ea7ns borders on pathological.<\/p>\n

Murray repeatedly invades M\u1ef9linh\u2019s personal space while also fetishizing the beauty of Asian women; he\u2019s a myopic clod who\u2019s so culturally insensitive that he has never learned to pronounce his daughter-in-law\u2019s name correctly, even as M\u1ef9linh patiently attempts to teach him. Bruce Randolph Nelson uses his tall stature to physically dominate his scenes with \u0110\u1ed7.<\/p>\n

Shockingly, Joyce is even worse than her husband, appropriating Asian clothing and religious rituals, then shedding white tears whenever she is questioned or confronted for her ignorance. Helen Hedman plays this part well, sometimes cooing and petting M\u1ef9linh as the well-intentioned white woman, but in a big blow-up in the third act, she releases the \u201cKaren\u201d and becomes a cruel and petty portrait of white ignorance and arrogance.<\/p>\n

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Bruce Randolph Nelson as Mr. Murray Drumming, Helen Hedman as Mrs. Joyce Drumming, \u0110\u1ecbnh James \u0110o\u00e0n as Mr. Tr\u1ea7n, Tuy\u1ebft Th\u1ecb Ph\u1ea1m as Mrs. Tr\u1ea7n, and Carolina \u0110\u1ed7 as M\u1ef9linh, in \u2018Dinner and Cake.\u2019 Photo by Teresa Castracane Photography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The evening starts off poorly with the Tr\u1ea7ns, who are rightfully offended that they needed to take a taxi when the Drummings refused to drive to Dulles during rush hour. As Mr. Tr\u1ea7n, \u0110\u1ecbnh James\u00a0 \u0110o\u00e0n is taciturn but observant, attuned not only to the emotions of his wife and M\u1ef9linh\u2019s discomfort but also more cognizant of the Drummings\u2019 boorish behavior than it first appears. And the local playwright Tuy\u1ebft Th\u1ecb Ph\u1ea1m does double duty playing Mrs. Tr\u1ea7n\u2014sardonic and frustrated in the first act, questioning in the second act, and heartbreaking in the third act when we learn more about how much she misses her daughter. (As we learn, the quick marriage between Matthew and Thuy may not be the romantic whirlwind it first appears to be.)<\/p>\n

At the center of all this is M\u1ef9linh, who\u2014like Ph\u1ea1m\u2014moved to the United States at a very young age as her family sought asylum as refugees at the end of the Vietnam War. As translator, she covers topics as banal as the drive into DC (although humorously retold by Mrs. Tr\u1ea7n) and as heated as the Vietnam War (of which M\u1ef9linh\u2019s recently departed father had shared little). Fluent in both languages and cultures, M\u1ef9linh decides what to state directly, what to paraphrase, and what to exclude. In supertitles, the Vietnamese is translated into English, but very importantly we hear<\/em> the Tr\u1ea7ns and M\u1ef9linh speak in Vietnamese throughout the play.<\/p>\n

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\u0110\u1ecbnh James \u0110o\u00e0n as Mr. Tr\u1ea7n, Tuy\u1ebft Th\u1ecb Ph\u1ea1m as Mrs. Tr\u1ea7n, Carolina \u0110\u1ed7 as M\u1ef9linh, Helen Hedman as Mrs. Joyce Drumming, and Bruce Randolph Nelson as Mr. Murray Drumming in \u2018Dinner and Cake.\u2019 Photo by Teresa Castracane Photography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

During the course of the awkward meal at a Thai restaurant, M\u1ef9linh is treated like an Other by the Drummings, who ask her to serve them, and grilled by Mrs. Tr\u1ea7n about her own marriage prospects and dating white men. Played deftly by Carolina \u0110\u1ed7, who code-switches in her demeanor and gestures as well as languages, M\u1ef9linh begins to acknowledge her dual-cultural status and what is left behind, and to reflect upon her recent decision to move across the U.S., leaving her ill mother in her brother\u2019s care, to be with her white boyfriend. In her playwright note, Ph\u1ea1m writes that \u201cthe constant mental negotiation to reconcile who I was with who I thought I needed to be had taken its toll\u2026 I make art to understand the difference between the two.\u201d<\/p>\n

In many ways, the play hearkens back to Guess Who\u2019s Coming to Dinner. <\/em>In that 1967 film, which grappled with the Civil Rights Movement and recent interracial court cases, such as Loving<\/em> v. Virginia<\/em>, the white Draytons are initially upset to meet their daughter\u2019s Black fianc\u00e9. Over the course of the film, the two families come to an uneasy but hopeful agreement over their children\u2019s upcoming nuptials, conceding that while the young lovers make each other happy, the couple was going to face discrimination and hatred from many others. (The evolution of the characters even shows the resistant white matriarch firing her longtime employee who makes racist remarks, something we know Mrs. Drumming would never do.)<\/p>\n

In Dinner and Cake, <\/em>there is not a happy conclusion: the play realistically delays any reconciliation, growth, or acceptance. It raises a series of questions that Ph\u1ea1m articulates in her director\u2019s note, and it leaves the future between these characters unknown. We do not know how or if the Tr\u1ea7ns and Drummings will repair their tense relationship. We do not know if M\u1ef9linh will reconsider her own recent familial, career, and relationship decisions. We never see Michael and Thuy together to see if their marriage may have longevity and happiness. Instead, the play\u2019s concluding moments focus on the Tr\u1ea7ns in a quiet embrace where they comfort each other.<\/p>\n

Dinner and Cake <\/em>is full of misunderstandings, difficult conversations, tense silences, and yes\u2014moments of humor, too. Come for the awkward family dinner and stay for the world\u2019s ugliest cake of white privilege.<\/p>\n

Running Time:\u00a090 minutes without an intermission.<\/p>\n

Dinner and Cake<\/em><\/strong><\/a> plays through October 2, 2022, at\u00a0Everyman Theatre<\/a>, 315 West Fayette Street, Baltimore, MD. For tickets ($29\u2013$69), call the box office at (410) 752.2208 or purchase them online<\/strong><\/a>. Box office hours are Monday to Friday from 9 am until 6 pm, and Saturdays from 10 am until 5 pm.<\/p>\n

The program for Dinner and Cake<\/em> is online here.<\/a><\/p>\n

COVID Safety: <\/strong>Masks are encouraged but not required for attendance. Everyman\u2019s Guide to Patron Health and Safety is here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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