The World of Extreme Happiness shines a harsh light on the human price of China's urban-led economic boom by focusing on Sunny, the unwanted female child of a farm couple. Escaping to the city at age 14, the naive girl finds janitorial work in a factory and strives to improve her lot by attending self-help classes. But when her own rise through the ranks causes calamity for a coworker, she finds herself in the ironic position of having to defend a system she's now seriously questioning. Award-winning playwright Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's The World of Extreme Happiness was dubbed "salty, surreal, bombastic" and "bruisingly funny" by Time Out London. Come see it at The Bathhouse Theater in Seattle.
Presented by Seattle Public Theater
