Although playwright Qui Nguyen declared early in his earlier play "Vietgone" that "all characters appearing in this work are fictitious," in his sequel "Poor Yella Rednecks" now at Manhattan Theatre, co-commissioned with South Coast Repertory, the playwright played by Jon Norman Schneider begins by interviewing his 70-year-old mother Tong Nguyen about how his parents built a life in America as Vietnamese refugees. Di…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:08PM on November 16, 2023