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Aoki encompasses the comic and the tragic with fine, quick, delicate gestures, using everything from her expressive hands and face to her long sweeping black hair…making relevant and magical even the most faraway tales. Aoki is a fascinatingly varied and inventive performer. [Aoki has]....extraordinary capacity for evoking an entire spectrum of experience out of her own body and throat. Aoki held the audience entranced... The story-teller, Brenda Wong Aoki, was capable of delivering a wide range of detailed emotional expressions. She possessed a strong magic of stage appeal. Wong Aoki's description of a San Francisco Chinatown tenement is everything one senses seeing strips of Chinese cabbage drying on the storm fence of a Chinatown tennis court, or the patches of green vegetation billowing out of one window of a brick building while the next window displays the day’s variegated garments washed and hung to dry. The sharp contrast between such nitty-gritty and cruel fantasy of one too many daughters rousing the ire of a crusty monarch is the stuff of marvels that Aoki manages to render into near blank verse poetry. With that walk and her timing, Aoki’s presentation is spell binding. |
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