An immigrant and a New Zealander claim they are in love. Two immigration agents must decide if they are telling the truth.

When Korean-born Sujin applies for a partnership visa with her Kiwi boyfriend Jeremy, immigration officers Laura and Charlotte are tasked with determining whether their relationship is truly “genuine and stable.”

As they sift through evidence, photos become exhibits, memories turn into testimony, and assumptions harden into fact; what begins as a routine case quickly spirals into a web of contradictions, and the line between the personal and the professional blurs beyond recognition.

 

Exciting new playwright Uhyoung Choi brings his personal experience working in immigration to the charged arena of the stage.

“Working on partnership visa cases has always felt dystopian to me. Like many dystopian tales, the system evokes anxiety, confusion, and — a flicker of hope. I’m excited to transmute these lived experiences into the heightened world of theatre.”

Genuine and Stable is an intimate mystery about love under scrutiny - what it means to prove it, to believe it, and to risk everything for it.