Fast Company at South Coast Repertory

Fast Company

South Coast Repertory
655 Town Center Drive Costa Mesa

Mable Kwan is the best grifter who ever lived. She's a tough cookie who raised her kids to be just like her: Son Francis is the top roper around and H is the number one fixer. But daughter Blue is the one who surprises them all by putting together the score of the decade. In the end, the question becomes: will the entire family get in on the action or will one of them walk away with it all? Fast Company is a skewed look at family and ambition, and Ching keeps the audience guessing about who's on top and who's getting conned.

Thru - Oct 27, 2013

Tuesdays: 7:45pm

Wednesdays: 7:45pm

Thursdays: 7:45pm

Fridays: 7:45pm

Saturdays: 2:00pm & 7:45pm

Sundays: 2:00pm & 7:45pm

Stage: Julianne Argyros Stage

Show Type: Drama

Box Office: 714-708-5555

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Fast Company Reviews

Average Rating based on 7 reviews

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Los Angeles Times - Somewhat Recommended

"...The ending of "Fast Company" is as labored as the play's setup, but between these points the action moves with impressive speed. It's a fun ride, though without much emotional weight, the amusement vanishes quickly from memory."

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- Charles McNulty

The Hollywood Reporter - Recommended

"...Director Bart DeLorenzo animates the action with such unflagging verve that he propels it past the bumpy moments and gives the text its best chance to shine. His actors are cast for charisma and dash, and just modest doses of charm. They deliver pleasurably dexterous performances, suggesting feelings while showily suppressing them."

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- Myron Meisel

LA Splash - Recommended

"...To film this complex genre is difficult enough, but to write and produce a theatre production that deals with grifters and "the long con" adds to the challenge even more so. Fortunately, at South Coast Repertory, the playwright, director and the stars grab that challenge by the throat with the World Premiere of FAST COMPANY. Newcomer scribe Carla Ching creates an entertaining tale involving family, the grifter life, and a valuable comic book."

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- Peter A. Balaskas

Stage Scene LA - Recommended

"...Though Mable and her clan may not stick in your memory the way last month's Lomans did in SCR's alternatively-cast revival of Arthur Miller's Death Of A Saleman, Carla Ching's family of grifters make Fast Company a refreshing change of pace for theatergoers in search of entertainment more than a bit out of the ordinary."

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- Steven Stanley

LA Stage Times - Recommended

"...Under the direction of Bart DeLorenzo, the quartet of actors is in top form. And DeLorenzo has enlisted projection designer Jason H. Thompson to bridge the scene changes with Saul Bass-inspired video design that keep the pacing as fast as the title."

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- Don Shirley

OC Register - Recommended

"...New Carla Ching play is clever but needs more back story and slower pace."

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- Paul Hodgins

OC Weekly - Somewhat Recommended

"...But Ching's script, while clever and witty, relies too much on clichés, from "two birds, one stone" and "brass tacks" to "cold feet." It's the kind of dialogue that works fine in a period piece for grifters, but these are highly intelligent, 21st-century grifters (one goes to an Ivy League school, another writes for the erudite sports website Grantland), and there's something awkward about hearing the archaic dialogue from their mouths."

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- Joel Beers