ASIANSPLOITATION SPANKS THE TIGER by Asiansploitation. Annex Theatre. July 8 at noon, July 10 at 7:30 pm. See listing. Rating: NNNN
Hot-off-the-presses timely with its references to vuvuzelas and the G20 Black Bloc, this clever sketch show takes a few pokes at racial boundaries while remaining original and funny.
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Rarely does a sketch ensemble this large work so cohesively, but Gene Abella, Sandy Chen, James Cheng, Darrel Gamotin, Andrea James Lui, Franco Nguyen and Jeff B. Santos excel under Andrew Currie’s expert direction. The writing is tight, with fresh takes on marriage, workplaces and even Tiger Woods.
The cast handles physical scenes exceptionally well – from the subtlety of two brothers mourning their dead father to Lui’s kick-ass karate moves in a game show.
It’s 2010, the year of the Tiger, and quite possibly the year of Asiansploitation.
