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...play opens, Bradley Yamashita (Young Lee '99) and Vincent Chang (Allen Soong '96) meet at a Hollywood party. Bradley, a young actor who wants to change the way Asians are portrayed in the media, tells the older Vincent that he admires his work and speaks of how much it means to the "community." Bradley also explains that he has sought out Vincent because he feels more comfortable talking to the only other Asian-American in the room...
...Vincent Schiraldi, director of San Francisco's Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, referring to the fact that more than four times as many pot smokers as murderers have been imprisoned under California's "three strikes" law. The measure was pushed into law after ex-convict Richard Allen Davis was charged with kidnapping and murdering 12-year-old Polly Klaas...
With the help of a flying contraption invented by Trichinosis (Josh Derman '97), and a philosophy minor Doris Levine (Stephanie Smith '98), Hepatitis decides on an ending and the play is performed. Hepatitis' play, complete with a Greek chorus similar to that in Allen's "Mighty Aphrodite," echoes the philosophical style as the actual play. This time, though, the debate is on the pros and cons of freedom: should a slave give up being taken care of for the "dangerous" freedom, and the responsibility of, one's actions...
...Allen does not deviate in any way from his familiar style and despite the plays' setting in Ancient Greece, it still takes occasional shots at New York City. "That's New York. You give them your money and they still stab you," the chorus comments. The characters are typical Woody Allen creations, slightly exaggerated and one dimensional, but the cast brings them to life...
...politicians have engaged in the classic 'bait and switch' scheme. They brought us into the store with an icon of Richard Allen Davis, but now that we're in the store, it is full of pizza thieves and pot smokers...