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"Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord" at La Jolla Playhouse


  • La Jolla Playhouse 2910 La Jolla Village Drive San Diego, CA, 92093 United States (map)

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September 20 – October 16, 2022 | Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre

Written and Performed by Kristina Wong

Directed by Chay Yew

On Day 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic, Kristina Wong began sewing masks out of old bedsheets and bra straps on her Hello Kitty sewing machine. Before long, she was leading the Auntie Sewing Squad, a work-from-home sweatshop of hundreds of volunteers—including children and her own mother—to fix the U.S. public health care system while in quarantine. It was a feminist care utopia forming in the midst of crisis. Or was it a mutual aid doomsday cult? With hilarity and boundless generosity, she invites the audience in on her work building community in isolation, while reflecting on what we’d been through and imagining what we wanted to become.


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