Wow, the SF Bay Guardian liked the “Three Little Dumplings Go Bananas” so much in their review “This Shit Is Bananas!” Check out this rad quote:
As the banal, chart-topping strains of Taio Cruz fill the theatre, a whirlwind of pink sportswear and bared teeth commandeers the stage. This is a moment in the evening survivors of BOA X, last year’s edition of the Bay One Acts Festival, have been waiting for.
Onstage, the “dumplings” Sarah Moser, Molly Holcomb, and Megan Trout throw their hands in the air and stomp with menacing playfulness, as their wimpy Daddy (Myron Freedman), grips his magic remote control like a drowning man. A standalone sequel to last year’s “A Three Little Dumpling’s Adventure”, Megan Cohen’s “Three Little Dumplings go Bananas,” is a worthy successor, building disturbingly on themes brought up in the previous incarnation: the perils of pop culture, most particularly in regards to television, the search for self (to the dulcet tones of Gwen Stefani crooning “this shit is bananas”), the horrors of sibling rivalry, and the feral joys of cannibalism all make a protracted reprise.
As disarmingly cute as they are blood-curdlingly vicious, the dumplings somehow manage to agree to band together—just in time to find themselves forced out into the real world, setting the stage for yet another sequel, which I suspect Cohen will happily provide in the future.
Here’s the full review of the Bay One Acts Festival, with shout-outs to lots of colleagues and comrades. I love that they used dim sum as a metaphor for the review of the entire 2012 BOA festival!
Reviewer Nicole Gluckstern has clearly been hungry for the Dumplings for a while– she awarded the first Dumplings play “Most Memorable Food Fight” in the 2011 SFBG Year In Theater.
The Dumpling reviews have been great, but I will admit, I was really hoping someone would give me the pull-quote “Bananas Has Appeal” or “Bananas Has A Peel” or even “Bananas is A-peeling,” maybe that one is the best?
-xoxo Megan