Anthony Doan

On his second 29th birthday, or the first anniversary of his mother’s death, Con decides to become a playwright. Wielding a typewriter to process his grief, he tries to control the story of her life and death. However, three different monstrous versions of his mother refuse to be written away. Con’s fictions spiral into violence and self-justification, and the play revolts. I Did Not Kill My Mother; and Other Lies I Tell Myself is a meta-theatrical horror-comedy that gorily rips apart a queer Vietnamese-American son’s relationship with his dead Vietnamese mother in a visceral confrontation of the ethics of memory, burden of cultural inheritance, and power in storytelling.