Staged Reading: Breaking Parity by Valerie Sing Turner

Join us for the first sneak-peek staged reading of Valerie Sing Turner’s latest work, Breaking Parity (working title). This one-act political satire about power and politics features the acting talents of Anthony F. Ingram, David Bloom, Donna Yamamoto, and Kameron Louangxay, with dramaturgy by Stephanie Wong, and stage management by Xin Xuan Song.

Monday, March 9, 2026

7:00pm

Free Admission

Moderated audience talkback post-reading

Venue: The Post at 750

750 Hamilton Street, Vancouver

Accessibility through CBC Vancouver Production Centre*

Synopsis: December 12, 2002. In a nod to Dickens, a Scrooge-like Henry Kissinger is 16 days into the prestigious chairmanship of the commission to investigate the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States – but with the families of the 9/11 victims demanding Kissinger release a list of his consultancy clients to prove no conflicts of interest, he’s in a quandary. Returning to his office following a meeting with a delegation of 9/11 widows, the 79-year-old Kissinger falls asleep, only to dream of a middle-aged Robert McNamara, former Secretary of Defense under JFK and Lyndon B. Johnson, who warns of the imminent visitation of three spirits of the past, present, and future: an old man whose village in Laos was annihilated by a secret American bombing campaign; a female Chinese-American nuclear physicist who worked with Robert Oppenheimer on the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb; and a Vietnamese girl, one of countless civilian victims of the Vietnam War. Kissinger was National Security Advisor when he assured President Nixon, “The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer.”

*For those unable to navigate stairs, The Post at 750 is accessible through the elevator located in the CBC Vancouver Broadcast Centre next door. Please enter the CBC at 700 Hamilton Street, and take the elevator to “UL” (Security Desk)

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