Playwright Sue Pak’s new play, Ghost Girl, is a powerful story about 13-year-old Heewon, who is sold as a sex slave during the 1940′s Japanese occupation of Korea. She escapes slavery by marrying an American officer, and is determined to erase her past in order to rebuild a new life for her and her daughter. But this causes the transformation of Heewon’s former self into “Ghost Girl” who terrorizes Heewon and her daughter, Moran, driving them to desperation.

Sue Pak’s inspiration for this play came after learning about a young Korean American female student at MIT who committed suicide by self-immolation. This led Sue to research what is known as “ancestral shame“—the idea that guilt and acts of violence are passed through bloodlines from generation to generation.

Sue Pak, along with the organizers of the play, are running a fundraising campaign to ensure enough funds to supply the creative minds responsible for conceptualizing the play, and bringing it to life on stage.

Help their fundraiser at IndieGoGo.

Ghost Girl will be performed at The Workshop Theater NYC, beginning August 18th through the 21st. Admission is FREE, and tickets can be reserved by contacting [email protected]

Watch Sue Pak talk about the play:

[Artwork by Miodrag Guberinic/Ghost Girl Facebook page]