Thursday, November 30, 2006
Telemongol ~ GTC Theater ~ Burbank
Wanru Tseng, Greg Watanabe, Jully Lee, Denise Iketani in PROJECT APPLE
GTC Burbank ~ 1111-B West Olive Avenue ~ Burbank, CA 91506
A-LO-HE. I was reading the exotic word in giant letters on the stage’s backdrop. To my ears it sounded like a warm greeting from a soft-spoken, dark-haired beauty. Wait…A-HOLE? It’s A-HOLE? As soon as the comedy of sketches TELEMONGOL started, the cast got this straight with me and the two or three other Caucasians in a predominantly Asian-American audience who may have been guilty of indulging in the same Hawaiian Airline-style fantasy. Yes it’s A-HOLE and it’s not going to be docile, polite, or even “unobtrusive” like the rest of us might assume “Japs and Chinks” to be!
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