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Christopher Chen’s latest play, Mutt, has a few superficial similarities with

Warrior Class, Kenneth Lin’s drama that played TheatreWorks last year.  Both center on Asian-American politicians that represent the Republican Party’s best hope for an Obama of its own. But what the two plays do with that subject matter is very different, and thank goodness for that. Chen’s play is a satirical comedy rather than a drama, for one thing, but it also takes on race politics in America in a much more direct and satisfying way, appropriately enough for a play whose subtitle is Let’s All Talk About Race! Read more