Samuel Son
A One-Person Show
Spam
Kimchi
Kimchi
Seoul food·Soul food
“I belly laughed and ugly cried — sometimes both in the same moment.” — Rita Spalding
Seoul food·Soul food
“I belly laughed and ugly cried — sometimes both in the same moment.” — Rita Spalding
Made possible by Space for All Funds
“Spam Kimchi is at once hilarious, poetic and heartbreaking. Most of all it’s emotionally true — not just for Samuel Son but for everybody who hears him talk about his Korean heritage and realizes it’s just like their own, wherever their ancestors are from.”
— Keith McGill, Actor & Director
“I belly laughed and ugly cried — sometimes both in the same moment.”
— Rita Spalding, Award-Winning Poet
About the Show
“Your own birth is like the worst hangover…”
Spam Kimchi is a one-person show about family, amoebas, trauma, canned meat, and the dish that holds it all together. It's funny and sneaks up on you.
Samuel Son is a comedian, a spoken word artist, and a preacher — so you know this show is gonna be a delicious hybrid dish.
From the show
The amount of kimchee is the weight in your heart.
And the amount of gochujang?
When the water is as red as deep sunset — it’s enough.
You don’t measure cooking.
You listen to all the sacrifices of the ingredients.
Listen to all your ancestors
who survived one shared meal at a time.
— Samuel Son, from his poetry book America, My America
Event Details
Date
Nov 20 & 21
2026
7:30 PM Show
Doors
6:30 PM
Come early, grab a spot
Show
7:30 PM
Approx. 75 minutes
Venue
Kentucky Center
MeX Theatre
501 W Main St, Louisville, KY 40202
Capacity
100 Seats
Intimate. No bad seats.
Tickets
General Admission
Tickets available soon via Kentucky Performing Arts.
For more on Samuel Son — sonsamuel.com
Audience
“His deep well of wisdom and commitment to justice always took the punch line a step deeper and left me thinking beyond the joke. I left lighthearted but also thinking about new ways of perceiving this hurting world.”
— David Maxwell
“Your show is one of the best I’ve seen. You touch people in ways you’ll probably never understand.”
— Nikki Stigall