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The two women could not enter the barren, yellow-wallpapered apartment in more starkly different manners.
Luna launches in as if from the barrel of a cannon, rattling off each thought that rises as she welcomes a potential friend into her modest apartment for the first time during her three months in the US. Jane — timid and meek — scarcely manages a word as she builds the courage to cross the threshold into Luna’s home.
They are so clearly different, yet also similar. Wearing the exact same Kmart coats, these two young immigrants met at the grocery store while shopping alone, their physician husbands both working through the night on this lonesome Thanksgiving.
What luck to have found one another.
The single-act, two-player production of “The Heart Sellers” at Capitol Stage is playwright Lloyd Suh’s nuanced, human examination of the solitude and uncertainty that underscored life for young immigrants hailing from Asia to Nixon-era USA.