“Uproarious and touching”
“Mashita and Jeanne Sakata devour these universal Bickersons to uproarious and touching effect.”
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“A brilliant performance”
“Jeanne Sakata gives a brilliant performance as the aging servant Qing.”
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“The amazing Jeanne Sakata”
“Mimi’s thrill-seeking abandoned lover…the amazing Jeanne Sakata.”
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“Sakata’s triumph in what seemed an impossibly demanding role…triply wonderful”
“Jeanne Sakata’s Ovation Award for her amazing performance in RED was applauded by me with special enthusiasm. Sakata’s triumph in what seemed an impossibly demanding role was an age-and-gender-bender. Her portrayal of an aging male Chinese opera star playing a female was triply wonderful.”
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“Sakata gives an awe-inspiring portrayal… RED simply could not be in better hands”
“As Hua, Jeanne Sakata gives an awe-inspiring portrayal of a proud practitioner of a dying, outlawed art… giving Hua a severe exterior, Sakata teaches us what it means to equate one’s life and art entirely, yet releases Hua’s buried humanity gracefully in his most desperate moments…..a finely-tuned, inspired work, RED simply could not be in better hands.”
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