| YELLOW FACE Last Night | |
| Posted by: sergius 09:04 am EDT 10/13/24 | |
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| An identity politics farce that’s mostly sharp and funny. Then things get more overtly serious. Hwang’s written a buoyant and prickly burlesque of identity politics that’s keenly directed and very well acted. But when the play veers into the repercussions of a race baiting Chinese espionage scandal it loses some comic steam that it never fully recovers. The play shifts awkwardly from (very) broad comedy to a more blunt critique. Though YELLOW FACE is a better, and more effective, slapstick than it is a social comedy, it nonetheless manages to be both rollicking and appreciably rancorous. It’s fast and furious which, these days, may be the only way to run. | |
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