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Shane Sakhrani's A Widow of No Importance

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Comments (0) By Steven Leigh Morris Thursday, Sep 29 2011
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Enter Deepa's brooding son (Cheena again) ready to cart mom away as his live-in servant. He's appalled by her romance with the guy he went to school with, and now she has to choose between duty and desire, between personal sacrifice and personal fulfillment, between East and West.

The play is a diverting sliver of cultural anthropology and identity politics, partly as creaky as an antiquated comedy of manners, punctuated with moments of sitcom farce, all reaching for the poignancy of the clash between the old world and the new. It's shocking for the easily shocked. As for the rest, it's as pleasant as sitting through a rerun that has its moments.

Autumn-spring romance in A Widow of No Importance: Lina Patel and Sunil Malhotra
PHOTO BY MICHAEL LAMONT
Autumn-spring romance in A Widow of No Importance: Lina Patel and Sunil Malhotra

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East West Players

120 N. Judge John Aiso St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Category: Performing Arts Venues

Region: Downtown

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Don't be put off by the warning in the lobby: Neither the flashing lights nor the fog effects are overly intimidating.

A WIDOW OF NO IMPORTANCE | By Shane Sakhrani | Presented by East West Players, 120 N. Judge John Aiso St., Little Tokyo | Wed.-Sat., 8 p.m.; Sun., 2 p.m. | Through Oct. 9 | (213) 625-7000 | eastwestplayers.org

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