Word: thuy
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...says he was then approached by Phuong. Desperate, he accepted her offer, and was promptly issued a new visa that came with a new family: a woman posing as his wife and her two children. But Hai already had a wife and curly-haired son Van, 9, and daughter Thuy, 10. "I didn't want to leave them behind," he says. He wrote to the U.S. embassy complaining that he had been rejected under his real name and accepted with a fake name. He got no reply, he says, but within a month his new visa was revoked...
...lover, Rona Figueroa enjoys more success. Her voice is clear and her line-readings are appropriate for the character. Nevertheless, Figueroa’s performance is so full of wide-eyed innocence, especially late in the play, that Kim appears less sympathetic than foolish. Skie Ocasio, as Thuy, the husband Kim’s parents arranged for her prior to their deaths, offers a performance unrivaled among the supporting cast. Ocasio shines with a powerful presence and robust singing voice. Though he must appear in a painfully bad second act flashback, he handles even that sequence with skill...