CI Scribe Diana Son's play reviewed

Review: 'Satellites' provides pointed social commentary
By Pat Craig
2.1.08


Diana Son shows a frightfully accurate eye for contemporary detail in "Satellites," which opened Thursday in Berkeley's Aurora Theatre as what may be the first melodrama of 21st century urban married life.
Son, whose day job is writing for "Law and Order, Criminal Intent," is herself a young mother living in a Brooklyn brownstone. But no matter how fast-paced her own life, it is probably nothing like the social pressure cooker she's invented for Korean-American architect and mom, Nina (Julie Oda) and the human satellites who orbit around her in what seems to be an ever-tightening noose.

She is currently the sole support of her family, the baby and husband, Miles (Michael Gene Sullivan) a freelance computer guy, who is black and something of a disappointment to Nina's family. Nina's architectural partner, Kit (Ayla Yarkut), is increasingly frustrated by her own life and the fact she's carrying the full load of the business while Nina tends to the baby (but tries to relieve some of the burden by hiring a Korean nanny, Mrs. Chae (Lisa Kang), who actually creates more tension).
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