Jacob Yeh rounds out Rorschach’s cast with the best of both worlds: delving deep into the affable Ryan who bookends the show and tuning into the emotional resonance of each character.
Written by Emmy-nominated playwright, producer, and screenwriter Steve Yockey and directed by Jenny Mcconnell Frederick, the cast of four actors deftly portrays multiple characters throughout the narrative, each shedding light on humans’ varied responses to fear.
Yockey has structured Sleeping Giant as a series of vignettes, a new set of characters, in various living rooms, dealing with the ways their world has rapidly changed since an ages-old Beast emerged from the lake… In the process, we encounter myriad characters played by a talented cast of four…It starts with a bang: Ryan (Jacob Yeh), outside his family’s lake house, has just surprised Alex (Sydney Dion) with a fireworks display over the water. But smoke inhalation—and Alex’s shock—causes them to rush inside. Ryan has planned the evening around the courtship rituals described in Lost Palace of the Butterfly King, a book describing “a weird cult in the South Pacific,” though he has notably omitted the human sacrifice and the eating of the in-laws. He dances shirtless for Alex’s female gaze, before segueing into a parody of Rachael “Raygun” Gunn’s much-derided breakdance performance at the 2024 Summer Olympics. (No choreographer is listed; one presumes this dance is a collaboration between Yeh and director Jenny McConnell Frederick.)