"Critic's Pick! Wong is good company and an accomplished storyteller, and she and Yew have made a show that is both heartening and cathartic. Tripping our collective memories of a strange, scary, isolated time, it asks us to recall them together. Which helps, actually. Back out on the street afterward, we’re lighter — and, thanks to the Aunties, imbued with hope."
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"4/5 stars! Kristina Wong weaves a colorful tale out of sewing personal protective equipment during the pandemic...Even with a few dropped lines and loose ends, the play is an entertaining and discomfiting dispatch on what the pandemic revealed about inequality and ineptitude in America, as well as a celebration of ingenuity, community and survival."
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"I've been living in dread of an onslaught of COVID plays, imagining all sorts of dreary two-handers featuring locked-down couples laboriously working out their relationship issues. (It could happen yet.) Therefore, it is a special delight to report that this solo show unexpectedly -- one might say astoundingly -- finds considerable hilarity in the trauma of the pandemic, along a with a large helping of hope and some pointed sociopolitical commentary. Clearly, sweatshop overlords know what they want and how to get it."
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Indeed, Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overload emerges as one of the most serious-minded plays of all, as it surveys what we all have been going through and having to endure for the past 20 months.
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“This…is the story…, told with wide swathes of humor, of the medical, social, and political firestorm ignited by the pandemic…Satirical daggers are flung toward not only the misguided millions of anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers, but also at our government’s ineptness...Several times she asks…if the United States isn’t some “banana republic.” And not a soul can so no.”
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"Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord is wry, funny, passionate, sarcastic, and filled with heart."
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