Cowboy Versus Samurai

Characters: 3 male, 1 female

A laugh-out-loud, romantic comedy exploring the sexual dynamics that surface around race when an attractive Korean American woman moves to town. The play is a politically edgy examination of inter-racial dating and identity through irony, humor, and social commentary. Travis Park is a high school English teacher and the only Korean American man living in a dusty cowboy town known as Breakneck, Wyoming. When a gorgeous, whip-smart Asian American woman moves into town, he immediately falls for her; the only problem is that she only dates white men. In this savagely funny and often moving comic re-telling of Edmond Rostand's
Cyrano De Bergerac, one man must choose allegiance between his cowboy friend (a dim, handsome, Caucasian P.E. teacher named Del) and his Asian Brother-with-a-Capital-B (crazed, militant Asian of Unknown Origin, Chester). He must choose between the Asian American and the American within himself - between Cowboy Vs. Samurai - in a pursuit of a love that may only be as real as the love letters he writes for someone else.

"With requisite moments of truth, hilarity, and despair, [Cowboy vs. Samurai] is a thoughtful, thoroughly compelling piece of theater." -Off Off Online

"A hilarious commentary on racial stereotypes under the umbrella of a modern-day Cyrano de Bergerac love story." -Seattle Weekly

"Explores culture, stereotypes and self-hatred with sharp wit and frequent wisdom...Cowboy vs Samurai shouldn't be pigeonholed as an Asian play or a work about race - it is much more a story about friendship, love and belonging." -SanDiego.com

"A gentle, genial, frequently wise comedy of character and race... Yee-haws all around!" -Village Voice

"Sharp, thoughtful, witty... Superb." -South China Morning Post