Play: yellow fever express
Reviewer: Kyle Patterson-Nulls
5 Stars
A wild ride. His language is brutally honest and hilarious and when he's
at the pulpit he peaches right from the heart. The guy tells us before the
play starts to fasten our seat belts. I wish there really were seat belts.
One minute we're in Arizona, then Ralph Reed is getting raped by Beelzebub,
then to Utah, then a sex crazed reverend starts complaining about his sex
life. Think what would happen if Spaling Grey, Jerry Falwell, and Jackie
Chan had a baby-you've got the yellow fever express. I loved the music.
Although a couple of the transitions from monologue to preacher were a little
rough. Overall, I loved it.
Play: The Yellow Fever Express
Reviewer: Fringe already?
3 Stars
I really wanted to like this more than I did. Creatively put together
with slide show and two guys providing great musical interludes with appropriate
tunes , but it feels like he's trying to do too much at the same time and
some of the more worthy parts get lost. Editing might help as some of the
recuring sermons are repetitive without purpose and his dead pan delivery
can become monotonous. An infusion of enery or life in the presentation
might help. Having said that , he does broach pertinant concerns for asian
males in
America and I'd be curious to know what the reactions of Asians seeing this
show was. It's still worth seeing.
Play: Yellow Fever Express
Reviewer: Francisco Solano Lopez
4 Stars
Well worth seeing. The genuine insights into the human condition, especially
in the realm of modern orientalism, that hit seldomly subtle and brutally
honest, are of the most important nature to the modern man. Disconnects
of the public realm and the asian american male addressed in this piece
are of an essetial beauty. Though these ideas are too much to be adequately
examined in merely an hour, they are done so in an entertaining and always
thought provoking manner. |