Yoga Play, which makes its regional premier at Keegan Theatre this April under the direction of Susan Marie Rhea, takes that contradiction and runs with it to hilarious extremes…

In one scene, Yeh made the opening night crowd howl as he played a mortified Fred pretending to speak Hindi…

In addition to laughs, Yoga Play’s latter half serves up much food for thought. The show cleverly interrogates the distinction between cultural appreciation and appropriation, and asks who can lay claim to particular cultures and identities. The juxtaposition of Raj, who was born to Indian parents but is as American as they come, and Fred, an immigrant fiending for a green card after fleeing Singapore for being gay, underscores the nuances of immigrant and first-generation identities.

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Sanapala and Yeh are particularly winning as business besties, humanizing what might have otherwise been two-note characters. Their conversations over liquid lunches are respites from the madcap plot and bring a more global perspective to notions of justice, family, labor, and belonging. 

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