The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G: The Unrated Version
Michael Mraz
February 14, 2012: Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company is, by its own description, a “geek theatre company specializing in creating comic book styled theatrical shows that are filled with martial arts, badass ladies, physically weaker male characters who tend to need saving, and sudden and abrupt genre shifts.” Co-artistic director Qui Nguyen’s new play, The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G, part three of his “Gook Story Trilogy,” provides us with all of these things in spades. But the hilarious, sharp, high-octane show, produced in association with Ma-Yi Theater Company at the Beckett Theater on Theater Row, sneakily disguises a lot of heart and some important questions under the witty spectacle about a playwright struggling to write a very personal family chronicle the “right way.”
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