Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord NYC Reviews and Tickets
About the Show
Production Covid-19 Safety ProtocolsShow-Score Member Reviews (35)
See it if you are interested in relatively new performers who are clever and entertaining.
Don't see it if you don't like one-woman shows, you don't like clever comedy. Read more
See it if hilarious, moving, lots of heart, takes you through the traumatic events in U.S. since the start of the pandemic but surprisingly healing
Don't see it if if you are not ready to see a show which talks about the pandemic when we are still in it, but, you might be surprised how much we need it
See it if you want to revisit covid trauma but in a fun way.
Don't see it if You're not ready to relive 2020.
See it if Living thru COVID you get the story immediately and it is so personal to everyone in NYC.
Don't see it if There is no reason not to see it
See it if Very clever and entertaining one-woman show. With provocative ideas about community responses to challenges
Don't see it if Sometimes slightly self congratulatory
See it if you are looking for a meaningful and personal story of heroism during the pandemic - a powerful presentation of important moment in history
Don't see it if talk about the events of the pandemic would be triggering
See it if you like one-woman shows. This was a really touching glimpse at a moment of the pandemic that's now passed but we should never forget.
Don't see it if you'd prefer not to see a true story on stage or like plays that have more than one person in them.
See it if Empathizing and laughing through an Asian woman's anxieties and action through the first year of the pandemic. How do we process a pandemic?
Don't see it if Covid-19/pandemic, "feel good" hope stories, anti-Asian violence aren't your thing. Read more
Critic Reviews (6)
"Critic's Pick! Wong is good company and an accomplished storyteller, and she and Yew have made a show that is both heartening and cathartic. Tripping our collective memories of a strange, scary, isolated time, it asks us to recall them together. Which helps, actually.
Back out on the street afterward, we’re lighter — and, thanks to the Aunties, imbued with hope."
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"4/5 stars! Kristina Wong weaves a colorful tale out of sewing personal protective equipment during the pandemic...Even with a few dropped lines and loose ends, the play is an entertaining and discomfiting dispatch on what the pandemic revealed about inequality and ineptitude in America, as well as a celebration of ingenuity, community and survival."
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"I've been living in dread of an onslaught of COVID plays, imagining all sorts of dreary two-handers featuring locked-down couples laboriously working out their relationship issues. (It could happen yet.) Therefore, it is a special delight to report that this solo show unexpectedly -- one might say astoundingly -- finds considerable hilarity in the trauma of the pandemic, along a with a large helping of hope and some pointed sociopolitical commentary. Clearly, sweatshop overlords know what they want and how to get it."
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Indeed, Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overload emerges as one of the most serious-minded plays of all, as it surveys what we all have been going through and having to endure for the past 20 months.
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“This…is the story…, told with wide swathes of humor, of the medical, social, and political firestorm ignited by the pandemic…Satirical daggers are flung toward not only the misguided millions of anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers, but also at our government’s ineptness...Several times she asks…if the United States isn’t some “banana republic.” And not a soul can so no.”
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"Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord is wry, funny, passionate, sarcastic, and filled with heart."
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