←Recommendations of Cambodian Rock Band

I saw this last fall and it remains one of the best pieces I've seen this season. The past and present narratives intertangled in a beautiful, heartbreaking, and, ultimately, surprisingly hopeful way. The music not only established the tone of the piece, but helped display the strong connections, and eventual disconnections, between these humans caught up in forces beyond their control. And the dark humor was so sharp yet uncomfortable, inviting the audience into the narrative while highlighting our complicity in listening to this story. Amazing, amazing piece.

Yee's "Cambodian Rock Band" celebrates both the musicians that the Khmer Rouge murdered and the music that survived, communicating in a way that statistics and archives don't always do the vibrant and visceral popular culture that was killed in the first genocide of the rock'n'roll era.

Almost 2 years after I saw this piece, pre-pandemic, and I’m still raving about this amazing and powerful play. Yee takes us on a journey through music as a child gets a rare opportunity to connect with their family’s history. I’ve never seen such bold writing leap off the page and keep me on the edge of my seat from start to finish. There isn’t just one word to describe this piece. If you get a chance to read or see it, you’re definitely in for a treat

Cambodian Rock Band was one of the last shows I saw pre-COVID and I am so grateful for it. There is humor along with the devastation of the events the play depicts, and I was cheering at the end (along with the rest of the audience) in a way that I never have at any other show.

The ASTOUNDING production at Signature Theater was the last play I caught before lockdown and I'm still thinking about it. I laughed, I cried, I was educated about the historical violence of totalitarian political regime changes. The music is incredible. The characters and situations are rendered with so much craft, research, cultural richness, and heart. Honestly this is the best play I've seen in New York in probably a decade. PRODUCE THIS PLAY. SEE THIS PLAY. WOW. WOW. WOW.

I stand in awe of this play.

The production at Victory Gardens in Chicago was a testament to the adaptability of theatre. Part Memory Play, part Family Drama, part History Lesson, and part Rock Concert, this is an unforgettable piece of theatre.

I cried, laughed, danced, and enjoyed the hell out of CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND when I caught it at the La Jolla Playhouse. It's electric and powerful. Run to go and see this, if given the opportunity.

I love the humor, and the relationship between the Father and the Daughter at the core of this brilliant and heartbreaking work. Rock on!

Truly one of the best act one endings I've ever seen. A devastatingly powerful, powerfully hopeful play. Do not hesitate to see this show live if you get the chance