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How Playwright Lauren Yee Took the Khmer Rouge Genocide and Turned It Into the Joyful Cambodian Rock Band by Diep Tran

When actor Joe Ngo was growing up, his parents would tell him stories about their time as labor camp prisoners under the Khmer Rouge regime. One story stuck with him. It was about the time that his mother witnessed a prison guard killing a young boy for stealing fruit. "He literally takes a machete and cuts this kid open, takes out his gallbladder and eats it in front of people," Ngo retells with a grimace. "My mo…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:12PM on February 11, 2020

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