ABOUT THE PROJECT

Ba Chị Em is a reimagining of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters, transposed into the lives of a Vietnamese family shaped by memory and migration. Set in the United States Midwest around the 1980s (post fall of Saigon), this adaptation centers three Vietnamese sisters grappling with their new home in America, longing to return to Saigon, a place that lives more vividly in memory than in reality. The result is a deeply personal and communal meditation on generational loss, the tension between cultural assimilation and cultural resilience, and the shifting definition of what “Home” means. 

This reading is made possible because of NYU Graduate Acting’s Freeplay Festival. To learn more about the program, the graduating Class of 2026, and the Freeplay Festival, click on the button below.

CO-ADAPTOR
Michael Thanh Tran

CO-ADAPTOR
Jessica Luu Pelletier

CO-ADAPTOR
David Lee Huynh

DIRECTING FACILIATOR
Alexis Kulani Woodard

SPECIAL THANKS
NYU Graduate Acting