She Said Fuck That’s A Pretty Giant Deep Ocean

2026, New York

She Said Fuck That’s a Pretty Giant Deep Ocean* follows Jane, a young Asian woman navigating migration, loneliness, language, performance, mental illness, and the exhausting labor of being understood. Moving between English and Chinese, memory and self-tape, classroom and apartment, the play traces Jane’s fractured attempts to explain herself—to friends, professors, family, audiences, and perhaps most violently, to the theater itself.

At once intimate, funny, brutal, and formally unruly, the piece asks what happens when personal pain becomes “material,” when translation becomes performance, and when the desire to be seen turns into another kind of drowning. With a live Stage Direction figure mediating, translating, and eventually intruding on Jane’s story, the play exposes the uneasy relationship between vulnerability, spectatorship, and the audience’s appetite for confession.

Production Photos by Daisy Dai 

This production was developed under the Glimpse Series of Shall See Theater and presented by the NuWorks Festival 2026 by Pan Asian Repertory Theatre. 

Written by Jingyi Luna Peng 

Directed by Dejing Eloise Wang and Jingyi Luna Peng

Lighting Design: Ayumu Poe Saegusa

Sound Design: Hastings Su

Projection Design: Jane Su

Production Stage Manager: Daisy Dai 

Producer: Zihe Tian 

Artistic Director: Zijun (Neil) Wang 

Cast: Jingyi Luna Peng and Nani Lin

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