Cambodian Rock Band NYC Reviews and Tickets
Member Reviews (128)
See it if you'd enjoy rock music &/or intense drama abt Khmer Rouge. Historical scenes compelling. Duch is fascinating; CRB strgest when he's on.
Don't see it if you want cohesive play (tone varies wildly). Upbeat music at end seems wrong. Some wooden dialogue/acting. Still, unusual premise; ambitious
See it if Really great story, performances and music. Has a little of everything, drama, history, singing. Really enjoyed it.
Don't see it if You aren't in the mood for a 2 act play. Aren't in the mood for a serious play.
Critic Reviews (15)
"Partying With the Khmer Rouge in ‘Cambodian Rock Band’: Lauren Yee’s ambitious, tonally mixed play uses bait-and-switch tactics to approach the dark heart of a genocidal regime."
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3/5 Stars. "Directed by Chay Yew, 'Cambodian Rock Band' doesn't quite hang together as a whole: It relies too much on contrivance and exposition, especially in the modern parts. But there's something both touching and rousing about the way it honors the lost beat of Cambodia's past. It's an act of defibrillation."
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"Men to Watch in 'Cambodian Rock Band', 'Blues for an Alabama Sky,' and 'The Headlands'"
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"One of the most widely produced new American plays of the current season, Lauren Yee's plugged-in confrontation with genocidal history takes its New York bow in Chay Yew's electric production."
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"Lauren Yee’s play draws on the music of Dengue Fever to track the fate of a fictional Cambodian band that ran afoul of the Khmer Rouge."
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"‘Cambodian Rock Band’ is vibrant, moving, and overstuffed"
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"Lauren Yee's Fabulous 'Cambodian Rock Band' Is the First Great Play of 2020: Yee's award-winning drama comes to the Pershing Square Signature Center."
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"'Cambodian Rock Band' is notable for its confident, if shocking, trajectory, from a wisecracking family drama with kicky musical interludes to a struggle for survival under the most pitiless of conditions."
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"An important play in its efforts to bring to light historical events with which many people in the United States are unfamiliar. In the end, though, the play, overstuffed with ideas and theatricality, does not pack the emotional wallop one might expect."
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5/5 Stars. "One of those intensifying dramas that sneaks up and grabs you by the throat, 'Cambodian Rock Band' is a major event of the off-Broadway season."
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4/5 Stars. "Playwright Lauren Yee discovers melody and meaning in tragedy, in the rockin' production of her 'Cambodian Rock Band'"
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"Lauren Yee has created a fascinating look into a world little known to New York theatergoers. By turns humorous and violent, 'Cambodian Rock Band' reveals some of the personal stories behind the headlines which have already become yesterday's news."
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"'Cambodian Rock Band' is one of the best productions of the season. Powerful, provocative and yet delightfully entertaining, the sum of its parts is even more valuable. It provides us with an insight into a time and place that should never have existed."
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"Jarring…disorienting, genre-bending show that shifts tone and time and focus -- and may arguably be the best way, perhaps the only way, Yee could have told the story."
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"Yee's language is always vibrantly alive, and, while her plotting is sometimes awkward and contrived…, she…manages to compel attention...'Cambodian Rock Band' maintains its entertainment value while making a significant contribution to educating audiences about the Khmer Rouge's carnage."
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