NEW YORK—Produced by Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, “Daybreak,” in its world premiere by playwright Joyce Van Dyke, has managed to merge material on a major horrific political occurrence—the Armenian Genocide of 1915—with material on her own family.
Often called the first genocide of the 20th century, this was a systematic murder and deportation of Armenians who fled the Turks, but not without great loss of life, as sometimes whole families perished.
