Is there anything less politically threatening than a rock band jamming to its own vibrant music? Tell that to the Khmer Rouge, which descended on Cambodia in 1975 and killed off some three million…
,” the doomed, fictional band Cyclo is represented by actor-musicians with considerable musical chops and enormous affection for their ill-fated characters.
In the play, Cyclo, the personable rock band hailed here, were among the 90% of Cambodia’s musicians who were killed during the genocide that decimated the country during the reign of the Khmer Rouge. The onstage band plays music that is a combination of Cambodian radio hits from the era and songs composed by the contemporary group Dengue Fever, infectiously joyous in the exuberant singing style of Reed, who doubles here as vocalist.
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