Based on her own experiences as a Korean-born woman adopted and raised in the UK, This Isn’t Romance explores the issues around the subject of cross-cultural adoption, centring on a character who returns to her native Korea and begins a highly charged relationship with the brother she left behind. In doing so, she hopes to answer the questions she has grown up with – why does Korea give away so many of its babies?; and can cross-cultural adoptees every really identify with either country?

Playwright In-Sook Chappell is a former model turned actress turned playwright. This Isn’t Romance is her first play, and won the 2007 Verity Bargate Award which aims to highlight new work by emerging playwrights.

This Isn’t Romance is directed by Lisa Goldman, Artistic Director of Soho theatre and a judge on the panel of the Verity Bargate Award.