The Far Country Tickets

By: Lloyd Suh
Director: Eric Ting
Producer: Atlantic Theater Company
Cast list: Shannon Tyo, Ben Chase, Jinn S. Kim, Whit K. Lee , Christopher Liam Moore, Amy Kim Waschke, Eric Yang
Design: Clint Ramos
Costumes: Junghyun Georgia Lee
Lighting: Jiyoun Chang
Sound: Fan Zhang
Other info: Wig, hair, and makeup design by Tommy Kurzman

Less than a year after Lloyd Suh's last New York play, The Chinese Lady, ran to acclaim, he returns off Broadway with the world premiere of The Far Country. Get The Far Country tickets on TodayTix.

The Far Country is a play set just after the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed, banning all Chinese immigration into the U.S. The show follows one fictional family who, like many real-life ones, dared to make the journey to America anyway in search of a better life. They travel from Taishan, a rural region of China, to California, braving danger at every turn.

Suh's The Chinese Lady was one of the most produced plays nationally in the 2021-22 theatre season. One of those productions was at The Public Theater this past spring, which received critical acclaim and multiple Off-Broadway awards nominations. Prior to The Chinese Lady and The Far Country off Broadway, Suh had two previous plays in New York: The Wong Kids in The Secret of the Space Chupacabra Go! and Jesus in India.

Eric Ting directs The Far Country in New York. He is an Obie Award winner for directing Jackie Sibblies Drury's We Are Proud to Present... in 2013. He also directed The World of Extreme Happiness in 2015 for Manhattan Theatre Club.

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What to Watch For

• Themes of journeying and Chinese Americans recur in Suh's plays. The Chinese Lady was about the first Chinese woman to come to America in the 1800s.
• Shannon Tyo, who starred in The Chinese Lady off Broadway, also appears in The Far Country off Broadway.
• Suh also has another play, Exclusion, that deals with the Chinese Exclusion Act specifically. That show follows Chinese migrants detained on Angel Island, off the California coast.
• Restrictions on Chinese immigration to the U.S. were in place for 70 years, from 1882 to 1952.
• Director Eric Ting previously directed another of Suh's shows: Bina's Six Apples, a play for children, in Atlanta.