Fast Company – Location, Tickets, Reviews
Fast Company by Carla Ching is a comedic play about a group of con artists and a heist gone awry. Rather than rely on their usual “bag of tricks” they employ game theory to engage in a psychological battle of wits with the ever-shifting target of their con.
Maxamoo
Fast Company is a fun play with a quirky cast of characters engaged in the time honored art of confidence games. At the center of the Fast Company story is Blue (a spunky, adorable Stephanie Hsu). She is running a crew and looking forward to a major score when a member of her team disappears with the object of their scam. Blue is forced to seek help from a pair hustlers with whom she has a long and challenging past. Sprinkled throughout the play are surprises, shifts of fortune, a little magic, and a lot of laughs.
Recommended. . .
- For dates and entertaining young adults;
- If you’re looking for something light and funny but also substantive;
- If you love science, logic, psychology, or game theory; or
- If you like Ocean’s Eleven and its progeny, the British TV show Hustle, or the American version Leverage.
Public Opinion
@AngrygirLcomics: My love for @carlaching ‘s new play Fast Company cannot be contained in 140 characters or less. AsAm crime family? Hilarity? Hell yeah
@patricklink: Fast Company @ESTnyc is what a grifter would refer to as a credible threat. Congrats to @carlaching, cast and crew.
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Critics’ Reviews
Blogcritics
Fast Company is perfectly titled, with quick action and characters who talk fast as they run their “company.”
Exeunt Magazine
Fast Company is science served as a madcap, breakneck caper – and it’s all the more intriguing as a result.
Let’s Talk Off-Broadway
FAST COMPANY is a fast moving, funny and suspenseful comedy about an Asian-American family of grifters, the Kwan’s, who’ll con anyone — best of all one another — to get what they want.
Theater Pizzazz
A dazzling, but ultimately empty, play about a family of Asian-American grifters.
Times Square Chronicle
Fast Company at the Ensemble Studio Theatre is the Family Hustle
TICKETS
$30 (click to purchase tickets from OvationTix, the official online ticket seller for Fast Company)
DATES
Performances through April 6, 2014
LOCATION
Ensemble Studio Theater
549 West 52nd Street, 2nd Floor
New York City
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RUNNING TIME
One hour and twenty minutes, no intermission
CAST & CREW
(partial list)
Written by Carla Ching
Directed by Robert Ross Parker
Featuring Stephanie Hsu, Mia Katigbak, Christopher Larkin and Moses Villarama