Save this article to read it later.
Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection.
The larger productions opening now operate on a smaller scale, in a similar in-between space.
(Hediedjust as this production started performances.)
(Williams himself went on to be a writer and executive producer ofFresh Prince of Bel-Air.)
The humor, as that story may imply, is very much of its time.
When you think of home, as the songgoes, what place do you think of?
Leons approach is serviceable and too respectful.
Williamss ending is neat, but theres space for a director to complicate it.
Leon lets it all rest.
But Scheer gets sidetracked into eddying, abstracted debates between characters about journalism and politics.
They tell us little about these particular characters as individuals.
I could go on Twitter and learn just as much.
Its one of several choices that might shock if only it had more grounding in character.
The nations go unnamed, and Lotfis script might adapt to a variety of tweaks and performers.
Chao and Wong both do well under Jennifer Changs warm but firm direction.
(One of Lotfis revealing, short-story-like observations is that no one had seen Z cook before then.)
In the part, Wong is sweetly winning, tinged as many rebels are with wounded melancholy.
Lotfi doesnt tie their lives up neatly, allowing the characters both pain and grace.
