Kim's Convenience (play)

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Kim's Convenience by Ins Choi is a play about a family-run Korean-owned convenience store in Toronto's Regent Park neighbourhood. It debuted on July 6, 2011, at the Toronto Fringe Festival, having secured a slot by winning the Festival's New Play Contest. The play sold out its seven-show run at the 200-seat Bathurst Street Theatre and won the Patron's Pick award that granted them an additional eighth show, which sold out in three hours. As well as writing the show, Choi directed the run and played the role of Jung, the protagonist's son. In 2012, Kim's Convenience was remounted by Soulpepper Theatre, under the direction of Weyni Mengesha, and became the most commercially successful production in the company's entire history. The production won two Toronto Theatre Critics awards in 2012: for Best Actor in a play, won by Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, and Best Canadian Play. It was also a nominee for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play in 2012. The script was published by House of Anansi...

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