Vietgone: A Thought Provoking Play of Laughs

Vivian McInerny
4 min readSep 26, 2022
Photo of program by Vivian McInerny

It’s billed as a love story, and not a war story.

But all is (un)fair in love and war.

I saw the play Vietgone by Qui Nguyen over the weekend at The Guthrie theater in Minneapolis. My hometown is Minneapolis but I left ten minutes after I turned legal (only a slight exaggeration) and haven’t lived there since. Two of my siblings and both my parents still live in…

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Vivian McInerny

Career journalist, essayist, fiction writer, and life-long spirit-quester.