![]() ![]() Jennifer Kim plays Janet at the pocket-sized Park: spot-on as a 30-year-old teenager, both vivacious and anxious. In the first stage version, Jun played the part of the daughter who is breaking away from her parents and their business (Janet is “single, ready to mingle”). ![]() He himself takes – with unruffled authority – the role of Appa, paterfamilias and proprietor, first-generation immigrant, proud entrepreneur. Choi has tweaked it back on to the stage for its European premiere. Ins Choi’s debut play about a Canadian-Korean family and their corner shop in Toronto was first seen 13 years ago at the Toronto fringe snapped up by Netflix, it ran for five seasons. This tickety-boo production – bright and light on its feet – directed by Esther Jun is an unusual mixture of the familiar and the new. Kim’s Convenience disarms with darting charm, then gently nudges audiences to look at their preconceptions. Or that a guessable happy ending rules out revelations. Don’t think because it twinkles, it can’t cut.
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