University Theatre will present the award-winning drama “God Said This,” centered on the life of a flawed Japanese American family confronting mortality, in seven performances at the UO’s Hope Theatre.

Shows will be April 15, 16, 22, 23, 29 and 30 at 7:30 p.m., with a matinee April 24 at 2 p.m. The play is directed by Michael Malek Najjar.

Written by Leah Nanako Winkler, "God Said This" revolves around a Japanese American family whose matriarch is battling cancer and whose daughters, Hiro and Sophie, are struggling with their place in the world. Their father, James, a recovering alcoholic, struggles with his estrangement from his daughters. Hiro’s friend John, who is a single father, becomes a grounding force for a woman who struggles with her mother’s illness and her family’s dysfunction.

The playt won the 2018 Yale Drama Prize and was first produced off-Broadway in 2019. In its review, The New York Times wrote that Winkler “sets out not only to bust stereotypes about submissive Japanese-American women but also to rescue hick Kentuckians, intolerant Christians, ‘tiger moms’ and even the dying from the broad brush of caricature.”

“It’s a serious family drama about dealing with how we feel when a loved one becomes ill,” Winkler wrote of the play. “It’s also about the strength that it takes to seek or grant forgiveness, with or without God.”

Advance tickets are available online, by phone at 541-346-4363 and at the Erb Memorial Union ticket office, or one hour prior to the show in the Miller Theatre Complex lobby. Tickets are free for UO students, $10 for adults, and $8 for UO faculty and staff members, seniors 65 and older, youths in grades K-12, and non-UO college students.