Cambodian Rock Band, by Lauren Yee (Pittsburgh, PA)

Cambodian Rock Band by Lauren Yee,
music by Dengue Fever and directed by Marti Lyons. (Main Stage)
City Theatre

The Los Angeles Times raved about the play that packs in love, family, heritage and the Cambodian genocide: “To say that Yee’s play is a fierce, gorgeous, heartwarming, comedic fairy tale set against one of history’s grisliest mass extinctions might imply that it trivializes suffering. In fact Yee has made her characters so joyfully and ridiculously human that it’s impossible — to a heartbreaking degree — not to identify with them.”