TEA

by Velina Hasu Houston

University of California, Irvine

robert cohen theatre

Director: Kelly Ho

Scenic Designer: Gretchen Ugalde and Hannah Tran

Costume Designer: Adela Ahn

Lighting Designer: Shelby Thach

Sound Designer: Pan Pan Guo

Stage Manager: Rusty Dimagiba

Four women come together to clean the house of a fifth after her tragic suicide upsets the balance of life in their small Japanese immigrant community in the middle of the Kansas heartland. The spirit of the dead woman returns as a ghostly ringmaster to force the women to come to terms with the disquieting tension of their lives and find common ground so that she can escape from the limbo between life and death, and move on to the next world in peace—and indeed carve a pathway for their future passage. Set in Junction City, Kansas, 1968; and netherworlds.