The Heart Sellers | South Coast Rep | Oct 26 - Nov 16

We meet the women—one Filipino, one Korean—during their chance meeting at a supermarket on Thanksgiving Day, 1973. Longing for connection, Luna invites Jane to her apartment.

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While their medical-resident husbands work through the night, the women bond over life in America, the families they left behind and how to cook a frozen turkey.

Nicole Javier (Luna) and Narea Kang (Jane)

The Heart Sellers gets its title from the landmark Hart-Celler Act of 1965, which abolished the national origins quota system for immigration. Among several changes, it gave preference to professionals with special skills and to relatives of citizens. The women we meet in the story are married to medical resident studying in the U.S.

Suh wrote The Heart Sellers during the pandemic and has said that while history and politics gave the play its name, at its heart, it is a comedy about friendship and connection.

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