San Francisco Strip Clubs: Theater review: ‘Fayette-Nam’

Jerome is an innocent who hangs out in one of the town’s many strip clubs and has a crush on Laura-Lai, who’s part tightfisted realist and a bit of a deranged Tennessee Williams faded belle. But Jerome finds himself attracted to Laura-Lai’s rebellious daughter Debbie (Kathleen Mendoza), who’s his age and has fled to her mom’s shop after setting fire to her college dorm. Adding to the confusion are the midnight misadventures of Debbie’s younger brother Connor (Kenneth Tan Ronquillo), who’s either gay, a straight Peeping Tom or terminally confused.
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Nguyen succeeds better with some creative tongue-in-cheek stagings of the Parisian fantasies and Erika V. Pallasigue’s shadow play as a stripper and a peeped-upon teen. A TV screenwriter and emerging playwright, Khoo doesn’t seem to have decided whether she’s writing a sitcom, a sex farce or a modern morality play. But at times, in the fissures between the forms and at odd, unexpected moments, her “Fayette-Nam” provides bits of real pleasure and intriguing glimpses of promise.

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