San Diego Fringe Festival: Sadec 1965 - A Love Story
Solo show written and performed by DC-based storyteller Flora Le, is part of the 2023 San Diego Fringe Festival. This storytelling piece is best described as “Motorcycle Diaries” meets “Eat, Pray, Love” set in Vietnam. In 2013, Flora rode a motorcycle across Vietnam for six weeks, solo, in an attempt to make sense of her difficult relationship with her estranged Vietnamese father. Flora was on a quest to understand why her father, who left Vietnam with a scholarship to study in Canada in the mid-1960s, never spoke about Vietnam. Since the answers she was looking for would never come from him, Flora decided to go on a road trip across the country, riding a total of 2100 miles in six weeks, from the Chinese border in the North to the village of Sadec, her father’s hometown in the Mekong Delta, to reclaim the story of her origins and make sense of the difficult man that her father was.