About this Event
SADEC 1965: A LOVE STORY is an award-winning solo show written and performed by DC-based storyteller Flora Le. This powerful storytelling piece is best described as Cheryl Strayed’s ‘Wild’ but on a motorcycle on the Ho Chi Minh trail. It was awarded “Best Production Overall” and “Best Solo Performance” at the 2022 Kelowna Fringe Festival.
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In 2013, Flora rode a motorcycle across Vietnam for six weeks, solo, in an attempt to make sense of her difficult relationship with her estranged Vietnamese father. Flora was on a quest to understand why her father, who left Vietnam with a scholarship to study in Canada in the mid-1960s, never spoke about Vietnam. Since the answers she was looking for would never come from him, Flora decided to go on a road trip across the country, riding a total of 2100 miles in six weeks, from the Chinese border in the North to the village of Sadec, her father’s hometownin the Mekong Delta, to reclaim the story of her origins and make sense of the difficult man that her father was.
One theme is common to Flora’s work: the transformation of pain into beauty. Flora uses her own painful life experiences to create beautiful stories of resilience, forgiveness, personal transcendence, and love. She has toured 15 cities in the US and Canada with her show over the last two years.
Children
The show is rated R and includes topics such as sexual abuse, addiction, HIV, war, and domestic violence. It is not recommended for minors.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Arc 3409, 3409 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, United States
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