By Ernest Kearney — In relating the differences she encountered after moving from Japan to Los Angeles in 2004, and the odd dissimilarities she observed between the peoples of those countries, Miyo Yamauchi shows herself to be an enjoyable and very entertaining storyteller.
Her tales are accentuated by cleverly drawn olios projected behind her, and the application, somewhat overused, of a boing spring sound effect usually reserved for Road Runner cartoons.
Yamauchi is at her best when tendering cultural insights such as, “Japanese people believe alcohol is a perfume for our minds.”
However the show, despite Yamauchi’s pleasing and elfin persona, simply meanders when it should cavort, frolic or even skip, nor was there anything overwhelmingly original about the effort to allow it to stand out from any number of shows that have covered the same ground.
But for that elfin personality a
SILVER MEDAL
How to be Japanese
played at
Asylum/Stephanie Feury Studio
at 5636 Melrose Avenue
on Saturday, June 4, 2022, at 7 pm.
during Hollywood Fringe Festival 2022
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