The Women of Tu-Na House

The Examiner – Bob Leggett

June 14, 2012 – Hollywood Fringe Festival 2012: Preview day 6 recap

Make it through the last day of press previews of the 2012 Hollywood Fringe Festival.  Managed to take in nine plays in that time.  Here’s my review of Tuesday’s shows:

The night began at Fringe Central for the delightful one-woman show The Women of Tu-na House.  Nancy Eng is an artist. That much is quite evident in this production, as she portrays eight very different characters with one common trait – they are involved in the sex industry.

Performed with candor and honesty, Women is almost an expose’ on this industry, and the attitudes of the owners and workers there.

Despite the small house, Nancy delivered a knock-out performance. Although it was not perfect, it was gutsy, raw and real.

I learned alot about my previous misconceptions about this industry, and left the show feeling more knowledgeable and better equipped to...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For additional information contact:
Nancy Eng – [email protected]
Matthew Quinn – [email protected]

Missed getting a happy ending at the Open Fist?

Four more chances as THE WOMEN OF TU-NA HOUSE pay a return visit to L.A. for COMBINED ARTFORM’S BEST OF HOLLYWOOD FRINGE 2012 @ THEATRE ASYLUM and NYC-based actress, NANCY ENG gives FOUR ADDITIONAL PERFORMANCES of her critically acclaimed one-woman show in an extended run when THE...

LA Weekly: 2012 Hollywood Fringe Reviews
Neal Weaver – LA Weekly 6/21/12

GO/The Women of Tu-Na House

Tu-na House is an Asian massage parlor-cum-brothel. The eight women include the religious madam, the jaded and understandably cynical prostitutes, and even one man: an elderly tea server and former actor for the Peking Opera who specialized in playing female roles. All are played with skill and panache by writer-performer Nancy Eng. Individual stories may be grim, but Eng finds ample comedy in the women’s comments on the vanities, foibles and predictability of their customers. Mad Cat Productions at The Open Fist Theatre, 6209 Santa Monica Blvd., Hlwyd.; Thurs., June 14, 5:30 p.m.; Sat., June 16, 3:30 p.m. (323) 455-4585, hollywoodfringe.org/projects/698 (Neal Weaver)  

THE WOMEN OF TU-NA HOUSE at The Hollywood Fringe
Jessica Abrams – LA Female Playwrights Initiative June 17, 2012

Less than a week ago I was a Fringe virgin, tentatively taking my seat as I prepared to see a show about elementary school crushes and Hallmark Valentines stamped Return to Sender. Four shows later, I can almost call myself a savvy Fringer, flashing my badge and glibly leafing through my press packet as I wait for the curtain to go up.

How fitting, then, that my latest — and last — blog subject is a one-woman show about women who are highly skilled at the art of love — or rather, satisfying men.  Nancy Eng’s THE WOMEN OF TU-NA HOUSE is a moving and at times heart-crushing show about the workers at an Asian massage parlor that doubles (not-so-secretly) as a brothel.  From the madam whose constan...

L.A. Review: ‘The Women of Tu-Na House’
Mad Cat Productions and Leviathan Lab as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival
Reviewed by Jennie Webb – BACKSTAGE/West Coast edition
JUNE 15, 2012

There are a lot of laughs in writer-performer Nancy Eng’s charming yet wonderfully graphic glimpse into a New York massage parlor—and a lot of touching moments that result in, yes, a happy ending. In this solo show, the women of Tu-Na House (“tui na” is the actual Chinese massage, but no one really minds the mistake on the sign) range from the shop’s blissful owner, who gives thanks to any saint she can find, to a trained New York masseuse who puts on a Chinese accent, to a gaggle of gals from Beijing, Shanghai, Taiwan, Saigon, and beyond, most of whom will go to great lengths to keep customers happy. Their varied stories are full of pain and anger and brutal honesty.

Eng is...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

EAST MEETS WEST IN MORE THAN ONE WAY AS THE WOMEN OF TU-NA HOUSE, ALL THE WAY FROM NYC, COME TO PLAY IN L.A.

Contact:
Nancy Eng/Mad Cat Productions (646) 431-8644/www.womenoftunahouse.com
Ariel Estrada/Leviathan Lab (347) 581-3047/www.Leviathanlab.com

For add’l details or to purchase $12 tickets visit:
www.HFF12.org/698
or
ww.womenoftunahouse.com

New York, NY, June 1, 2012 – Mad Cat Produc...