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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Saturday, December 9, 2006

SATURDAY SCOOPS
UH lab theater dishes out the last of comic 'Fish Head Soup'

 •  Dino might

Advertiser Staff

Chris Doi, left, and Dann Seki in "Fish Head Soup," a play about a family still affected by internment.

Alexia Hsin Chen

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It's the final weekend for "Fish Head Soup" at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa's Earle Ernst Lab Theatre.

Crisply directed by actor-comedian Stan Egi, Philip Kan Gotanda's play "about a contemporary Japanese-American family still disenfranchised by their World War II internment has a darkly funny and hopeful feel, buoyed up by excellent physical performances by an accomplished local cast," wrote Advertiser theater critic Joseph T. Rozmiarek. And "if you can't laugh at a broken psyche, what's the point of going to the theater?" he adds.

Showtimes are 8 p.m. today and 2 p.m. tomorrow. Tickets are $12 general; $10 UH faculty and staff, students, seniors and military; $4 UHM students. 956-7655, www.hawaii.edu/kennedy.