Reviews
S.A.M. I Am, by Garrett Omata
Asian American Theater Co., SF
3/96

"S.A.M. I Am, at the Asian American Theater Company, is a theatrical cartoon for the personal ads set --flat, vacant, repetitive, goosed up with laughs that arise from situation instead of character and capped with a self-affirming message...

"Even with its broad strokes, S.A.M. raises some issues about cultural ventriloquism and sex roles that might give it a little texture. But Omata settles for the shallowest solutions to his characters' problems....resolv[ing] his romantic crisis with a kind of straight Asian American variation on La Cage Aux Folles....Maybe S.A.M. I Am is the sort of play that can draw audiences in their 20s to live theater. I couldn't help thinking, as the laughter rolled by me, that this is a case of settling for a good deal less than what theater can offer."

Steven Winn, SF Chronicle

Reviews are available in their entirety on the web, at the SF Chronicle/Examiner's web site at www.sfgate.com. Use the search engine; the Chronicle review is on 3/23/1996; the Examiner review is dated 3/19/1996.

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