Phoenix Fringe: The Wedding Banquet

RUN TIME
1 hr 43 mins

Audio Description Available

Wednesday 11 June: 1300
Thursday 12 June: 2000

A gay man makes a deal with his lesbian friend: a green-card marriage for him, in exchange for IVF treatments for her. What could go wrong?

Angela and her partner Lee have been unlucky with their IVF treatments, but can’t afford to pay for another round. Meanwhile, their friend Min, the closeted scion of a multinational corporate empire, has plenty of family money but a soon-to-expire student visa. When his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris rejects his proposal, Min makes the offer to Angela instead: a green card marriage in exchange for funding Lee’s IVF. But their plans to quietly elope are upended when Min’s sceptical grandmother flies in from Korea unannounced, insisting on an all-out wedding extravaganza.

Fresh reimagining of Ang Lee’s beloved, Award-winning rom-com, a joyful comedy of errors about a chosen family navigating the disasters and delights of family expectations, queerness, and cultural identity. Directed by Andrew Ahn and starring a pitch-perfect cast of multigenerational talent that includes Bowen Yang, Academy Award nominee Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Han Gi-chan, Joan Chen, and Academy Award winner Youn Yuh-jung.