In performance at the New York International Fringe Festival, Korean-adoptee Christine Simpson traces the 20 years-and-counting career of one of pop music's unacknowledged geniuses. Along the way, she tries to come to grips with her adoption, her mother, and her obsession with the Roland SH 101 key-tar.
An engaging little one-woman show, both written and performed by Christine Simpson and produced by the New York International Fringe Festival. It chronicles, in a most charming way, the coming of age of a young Asian-American girl adopted by American parents - the dynamics of her stormy relationship with her mother, a stint with bisexualtiy and heroin addiction, all held together by her obsession with a-ha.
In the engaging hour and a half she manages to amuse, delight, surprise, and bring close to tears .....
Some of the highlights for this viewer: the author's recollection of the little 13 year-old girl attending her first New York City a-ha concert at Radio City Music Hall, her often acidic assessment, always on point and with love, of a-ha's music through the years, and, despite the sturm und drang of the mother/daughter relationship, her devastation on hearing of her mother's possible fatal illness.
Her narrative is interwoven with audio/visual effects - old pics of the guys, pics of herself and lots of a-ha music."
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