Scene: Buddhist Rituals and Chinese Canadians

scene: Then, there are the hallucinations he keeps having, estranging him from reality and making him wonder if he'll shortly be following his father into the afterlife, according to Globe and Mail. Acquiesce is a more meditative work than Yee earlier plays – such as lady in the red dress, which featured a time-travelling assassin redressing past wrongs against Chinese Canadians, or his Governor-General Award-winning drama, carried away on the crest of the wave, which shifted from one style to the next, scene to scene as it explored the after-effects of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. On the other side of the planet, Sin, born and raised in Canada, only feels more estrangement – with Kai looking down on him for his inability to speak Cantonese and ignorance of Buddhist rituals and tradition. What acquiesce does have that has been missing from much of Yee jumpy writing to date is a strong emotional side – something he been almost as evasive about exploring as the protagonist he plays here. Yee play certainly falls into that Canadian school of plays about the gap in understanding between the children of immigrants to this country and their parents. To be sure, Yee still has a desire to give the audience a show – one of Sin hallucinations is a stuffed Paddington Bear that dispenses advice in a Dizzee Rascal accent – but the mournfulness of the overall proceedings eventually gets under your skin and is strongly affecting. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.