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Seattle Fringe Fest Review Rag, March 1999
 This charming collection of sketches will remind you that theatre can be silly and light and catch you by surprise. A witty script and campy performance by the Pork Filled Players combine for a satisfying experience. The sketches are as ethnically diverse as the cast and cultural stereotypes they ridicule. We witness the ghost of a dead Chinese woman repairing the life of her grandson, a reoccurring Filipino fitness guru, and even learn a little Hawaiian folklore. Let us not forget the betrayal of Pop (the character from the Rice Crispies trio) by Lucky the gay Leprechaun as he runs off with rainbow billed Toucan Sam. Although the staging is often uninspired and occasionally lost to all but the first row, I cannot deny the creativity and humor that make this show worth viewing.
Seattle Weekly, March 1999
Where No Pig Has Gone Before
The Pork Filled Players
Likable and amusing, if not always laugh-out-loud funny, the Pork Filled Players mine familiar sketch-comedy themes like dating, health clubs, and the sex lives of cereal mascots with great success. Artists-in-residence at Northwest Asian American Theater, the group naturally includes many references to being Asian in America in its work, but the biggest laughs here come from good old-fashioned physical comedy and a pair of wonderful characters: a scolding Chinese grandma and a narcissistic Filipino aerobics instructor. --J.B.
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