Subway Stations of the Cross

Ins Choi—Planetarium

This show was written and performed by Ins Choi, the playwright behind RMTC’s 2014 production Kim’s Convenience. Unlike that play, this one lacks a consistent tone or clear, linear structure.

Choi begins with a lengthy introduction to himself, explaining his name, his mother’s expectation of him becoming a preacher, and his path to the arts. There is a fair amount of comedy in this section. Later on he plays a ukulele-like small guitar and sings a humorous song about 1980s sitcoms, after talking about his former consideration of life as a folksinger.

At other times, he undergoes some onstage costume modifications and portrays another character (or are they two or three different characters?) who is a homeless and dead-serious master-rhyming poet with some sort of connection to the divine.

Choi does each of these parts with skill and stage presence, but it was unclear what it all added up to.

Konrad Antony