Millennial Notes Qui Nguyen’s “Vietgone 2” Highlights Vietnamese Immigrant Experience by Jeanette Quick I wanted to love “Poor Yella Rednecks: Vietgone 2,” the second part of Qui Nguyen’s trilogy about Vietnamese refugees in Arkansas. Telling the stories of Vietnamese refugees in America is a brave act—we need more of this, especially in an America…
Millennial Notes Manuel Puig’s Gender-Bending Political Love Story Still Shines by Jeanette Quick “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” now playing at A Noise Within in Pasadena, is a complex and intriguing production of a well-known tale. It’s a love story; it’s a political commentary; it’s an elegy to the power of two people regarding…
Millennial Notes Mona Pirnot Brilliantly Multiplies the Meanings of Privacy by Jeanette Quick “Why does it matter if people hear our business?” “Private” by Mona Pirnot at SFBATCO is a wonderfully complex play. The show opens on Celeste Martore’s spare set where clean modern lines double as the living room of a young Bay…
Millennial Notes Michael Socrates Moran Invokes Song & Story in Mythic Spectacle by Jeanette Quick “Exodus to Eden,” Michael Socrates Moran’s ambitious new play, breaks new ground in both its staging and its themes of otherness, environmental destruction, and homelessness. The haunting voice of graceful Nkechi Live as an Exiled Angel fills the room,…