Award-winning playwright premieres new original work!
May 15, 2014
Based on actual customer complaints, “Yoshiba” is a one-act play by Joshua Morrison about computers and the personalities of the people who complain about them.
LOSANGELES – After having taken home the 2013 TU Award for Best Play at the 2013 Hollywood Fringe Festival for the critically acclaimed surprise hit It’s Important to Leave, As Well, playwright/director Joshua Morrison returns to the 2014 Fringe with the premiere of his satirical and darkly funny techno-drama Yoshiba, playing at the Theatre Asylum Lab.
Yoshiba is a fictional one-act that utilizes real-life, computer-related customer complaints as a jumping-off point to explore the characters and narratives behind their claims. Together, these stories present a glimpse into the kind of pervasive, absurd, sometimes destructive, and ultimately revealing relationship we humans have with our computers.
“Yoshiba is the closest thing I’ve ever written to a pol...