Aliens in America

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Aliens in America

By: Sandra Tsing Loh

Narrated by: Sandra Tsing Loh

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Contemporary satirist Loh spins a darkly comic, semi-autobiographical tale of growing up middle-class Chinese-German in Southern California. This comic monologue is for sons and daughters everywhere who feel that their parents must have beamed to Earth from another planet.(P)2000 L.A. Theatre Works, Produced in Association with KCRW, All Rights Reserved

Sandra Tsing LohSandra Tsing LohL.A. Theatre Works

Drama & Plays

Entertainment & Performing Arts

United States

World Literature

Drama & Plays Entertainment & Performing Arts United States World Literature

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Her strict, penny-wise father was a first-generation Chinese immigrant. Her distracted globe-trotting mother was of German descent. Together, as all parents seem to do, they drove their teenaged daughter crazy. In this lively and smartly observed one-woman show recorded before a live audience, writer, performance artist, actress, and radio commentator Sandra Tsing Loh spares no embarrassing laugh-out-loud detail in describing her life growing up in hip 1970s Malibu, with parents who hadn't quite acclimated to the suburban middle-class American lifestyle. Loh is bitingly wonderful at mimicking her parents’ Chinese and German accents in a way that only a daughter could get away with, but she’s at her best, most touching and most satirical, when turning the jokes around on herself.

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couldn't get past the borderline offensive caricatures and excessive screeching and screaming. maybe it works better in the context of live performance but as an audio piece this was almost impossible to listen to.

way too much screeching

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