Jar of Fat

An absurdist comedy and fifteenth winner of the Yale Drama Prize, exploring family, religion, identity, desire, and beauty in Korean American culture A� In a fantastical fairy-tale world, two Korean American sisters are deemed too fat to fit in their family grave. Will the sisters�_T close bond survive under the pressure of their community and fretful parents, who will spare no effort to make them tinier? A�Jar of Fat, the fifteenth winner of the Yale Drama Prize, is a phantasmagorical, absurdist Korean American tale about the allure and danger entangled within the quest for beauty and thinness. Both laugh-out-loud funny and deeply troubling, Seayoung Yim�_Ts play burns through the accumulated rage that anti-fat bias produces to reclaim what it steals from us every day: grace, space, possibility, and breath.