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“Cuckoo feels like a peculiar kind of dream, a communication from your subconscious, offering some truth you’ll never be able to translate into words.” —Exeunt Magazine
Three intrepid—and talkative—robotic rice cookers join forces with Jaha Koo, a celebrated playwright and charismatic performer, to paint an incisive portrait of Koo’s native South Korea. Following a major economic crisis in 1997, the country has grappled with youth unemployment, inequality, and rising suicide rates. Koo bears witness to these crises in humorous but poignant dialogues with the machines, combining personal experience, politics, and reflections on happiness and mortality.
This performance contains profanity, images of police brutality and violence, and videos and discussions of suicide.
Part of Out There 2025.
Audio description (AD) is planned for the Friday performance. Please click here to purchase AD seats.
Content note: This performance contains profanity, images of police brutality and violence, and videos and discussions of suicide.
Sensory note: This performance contains strobing lights.
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For questions on accessibility, content and sensory notes, or to request additional accommodations, call 612-253-3556 or email access@walkerart.org.
Program support provided by Flanders State of the Art and Leni and David Moore, Jr./The David and Leni Moore Family Foundation.
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