Miss Siagon

Miss Saigon


As a drama trip, my class went to go and see the production of Miss Saigon in Birmingham. There were many designs and costumes, different characters and music, sound effects and lighting. I found this production very interesting and imaginative. I could clearly see that a lot of time and thought went into making it, and it was all shown through the final performance.

The story of Miss Saigon was all about the war and Americans coming over to help the Vietnamese. Many of them slept around with the women and got them pregnant. The Vietnamese rejected the children because they looked to American, and the Americans rejected the children because they looked to Vietnamese. One American Sergeant fell in love with a Vietnamese woman in a club, and got married. He flew back to America and couldn’t get her passage. She had a child and two years later their paths crossed once more, and she was only to find that he had remarried. He would not take the child, as he believed th...