Bad Muse Collective's Love You Wrong Time crushes stereotypes with comedy, May 1 to 11
At The Cultch, the politically pointed show interweaves songs, storytelling, and satire in a battle cry for Asian femmes
Deanna H. Choi (left) and Maddie Bautista in Love You Wrong Time. Photo by Jeremy Mimnagh
The Cultch and Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre present Love You Wrong Time at The Cultch’s Historic Theatre from May 1 to May 11
BAD MUSE COLLECTIVE’S Love You Wrong Time, created and performed by Maddie Bautista and Deanna H. Choi, uses interactive comedy to tackle the fetishization of Asian women, incorporating everything from standup and satire to storytelling and bar games, while interweaving music throughout.
A battle cry opposing injustice and mass violence against Asian femmes, the show is part of the Warrior Festival, a series centred around resistance, identity, and politics through acting, movement, and comedy.
Love You Wrong Time won the Toronto-based company two coveted Dora Mavor Moore Awards when the show debuted in Ontario two years ago.
In it, the actors recount many of their own stories about navigating the dating scene, emphasizing their experiences of being stereotyped and judged based on their cultures. Love You Wrong Time’s use of comedy gets audiences laughing before making them ponder the performance’s underlying themes. The creators have said the production is aimed as much at women as it is at men.
Bautista is a producer, theatre artist, and sound designer, while Choi has worked on more than a hundred theatre pieces with various companies in Canada and creates music for both television and film. 
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