{my lingerie play} 2017: THE CONCERT AND CALL TO ARMS!!!!!!!!! The Final Installation NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (14)
See it if everybody should see this, especially if you love interactive art and building a sense of community
Don't see it if you voted for trump. or maybe that's extra reason you should
See it if you need a theatrical release from the current socio-political climate. This is important work that is direct and sincere.
Don't see it if you are uncomfortable with coming face to face with hard hitting & often times very intimate issues.
See it if you're ready to be part of an experience that is as exciting as it is instigating; Diana Oh is a formidable talent on the rise
Don't see it if you just want to see a play; if you would prefer to leave your "theatre helmet" on and not engage the audience around you
See it if an Asian woman unapologetically and humorously protesting the boxes in a raw and messy manner seems timely.
Don't see it if addressing queer issues might leave you feeling outside a different box.
See it if you want to see something positive about women and their bodies told with humor and great songs.
Don't see it if you hate glitter and music.
See it if Oh galvanizes audience to actively participate in this show; she dominates stage like cross between Bette Midler & Dionysus
Don't see it if this is concert NOT a play/telling amusing story of Oh's life; Oh's exhortation 2 accept LGBTQ world anything but subtle; outrageous stunts Read more
See it if you like theatre artists at the top of their craft getting sh*t done!
Don't see it if you want a traditional play-play. This is not that. Read more
See it if you like rock/punk cabaret style storytelling.
Don't see it if you are homophobic, frigid, don't like immigrant stories, and don't like glitter (it will follow you home, believe me!).
Critic Reviews (8)
"A glitter bomb of feminist and queer protest that feels just right for this cultural moment. And while '{my lingerie play}' isn’t truly a play — it’s more of an indie band concert infused with storytelling, politics and mostly voluntary audience participation — it is definitely theater...As angry as '{my lingerie play}' is, and it is pretty angry, it’s also a friendly, feel-good celebration of human beings sharing a space where it’s safe for them to be themselves."
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"If the production loses a little of its sizzle by coming indoors at the Rattlestick, that doesn’t mean it loses its reason for being...Oh’s songs can be damn good. Her sermons aren’t as effective; it’s hard to agree, in a theater of all places, that 'Courage is a lace-front wig.' Yet Oh makes a mighty preacher, rallying the converted into a sincere and openhearted circle."
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"Unquestionably daring...It just leaves you feeling like a revved-up engine with nowhere to go...It's a confused web of free-flowing thoughts and emotions, for which she preempts criticism by arguing that theater holds a mirror up to the times…That doesn't compensate for her sloppy arguments and logical gaps, but there is an undeniable feeling of safety in the literally and figuratively messy room Oh curates for her audiences."
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“To describe Diana Oh's newest performance art installation as the pep rally that precedes the dismantling of the patriarchy is by no means a knock on her vibrantly raucous mixture of glitter, soap bubbles, anger, art and activism...It's between the music segments where '{my lingerie play}' truly gets kicking...If there's a prevailing intention immersed in Oh's performance, it's the need for every individual to take on the responsibility of contributing to the healing."
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"A cross between a Montessori kindergarten and a campus pep rally, 'My Lingerie Play' is the ultimate bubble entertainment, airing a laundry list of ultraliberal pieties to an audience of the already-convinced by a star who seems blissfully unaware that all her provocations were tried long ago...Everyone leaves, having been treated to a warm bath of self-affirmation. Well, I left bemused. Is this tame striptease really what passes for daring, avant-garde theatre these days?"
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“Annie Sprinkle meets Penny Arcade meets Reno meets John Leguizamo in the person of Diana Oh. In her latest confessional-slash-concert, Oh first appears with large blue eye makeup (reminiscent of Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra), a black and red kimono that eventually comes off to reveal a red bra, which in turn comes off, exposing her voluptuous body. Oh also exposes her victimhood as a Korean-American in a ‘patriarchal, capitalist, cis-heteronormative society.’”
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“On pressing contemporary body and gender issues her heart is in the right place…That the intermittently intelligible rock songs are standard-sounding items that could have been written any time in the last 40 years isn’t much of a problem. Some of those audience-involving segments are…Why she believes these actions will turn those going along with it into committed activists is anybody’s guess.”
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"It presents righteous anger and frustration with the patriarchal status quos of race, gender, and sexuality. Oh’s performance is simultaneously enraging and inspiring, comforting and nurturing...Fast-paced and emotional...It’s during the moments when Oh blends her personal narrative and her political beliefs that '{my lingerie play}' is at its finest. Her convictions are so deeply felt that the combination feels both seamless and organic. Thankfully, it’s never preachy."
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