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Fringe News
Asiansploitation: Be More Pacific is Asiansploitation’s newest sketch show will part of the 2016 Toronto Fringe Festival.
Be More Pacific examines how our urban lives as Asian Canadians have been impacted in a city where East meets West, Old World meets New. Hamburgers meet Sushi. Some of us have assimilated. Some of us have dug in our heels. Some of us have dug into a bag of Lay’s Shrimp Chips.
By coincidence, the entire cast and director are children of first generation immigrants which prompted us to explore the many things that bug us and saw that our annoyances were a place of common ground with the rest of the world.
The five-member Asiansploitation writer/performer ensemble includes James Cheng, Tiffany Kwan, Ellie Posadas, Jeff B. Santos, and Anthony Tran. The show is Directed by four-time Funniest Female Improviser nominee Jane Luk and stage managed by Tita Kyrtsakas.
SHOW LOCATION: Robert Gill Theatre (3rd Floor of 214 College St at St. George)
SHOW DATES AND TIMES: July 1 @9:45PM; July 2 @11:30PM; July 3 @1:45PM; July 5 @4:30PM; July 7th @ 7:30PM; July 8 @ noon; July 9 @ 10:30PM
TICKETS: Available at fringetoronto.com
Founded in 2006 by Jeff B. Santos, Gary Chan and Glenn Gabriel , Asiansploitation is a collective of Asian-Canadian writers and performers that use comedy to examine, critique and re-imagine our society and expose the human condition. Since that time, Asiansploitation has created 10 original revues and three remounts across the GTA garnering critical acclaim and a dedicated audience base. Don’t be fooled by the troupe’s name and wonder “Do I have to be Asian to get it?” – definitely not! Men and women of all diverse cultures and ages have told us with big grins “I’m not Asian” but I get it. And they do!
Photo: Allan Turner as Jean-Paul Mullét.
2016-06-02
Fringe: Be More Pacific