num_pages: 144
description: Nam a procrastination-prone Vietnamese Canadian university student sets out with the vague ambition to write a musical about his diaspora as embodied by food particularly the world-famous noodle soup pho. What follows is pure meta musical genre-bending through thousands of years of history featuring rapping ancient kings communist spies dancing sharks and refugees and awkward first dates in suburbia. However Nam eventually finds himself caught between his different characters as each argues what pho (the food and the show) truly represents and he struggles to find an answer that will satisfy everyone--in the end isn't this just a bunch of silly soup songs?
language: English
title: A Perfect Bowl of Pho
publisher: Playwrights Canada Press