½
Good Morning, Beijing
(written and performed by Jerome Saibil)

There is something alluring about the radio business. Even when Jerome Saibil takes a break from his 60-minute monologue to cue up the next CD, introduce another song and make an entry in the log book, he's fun to watch, probably because he has one of those jobs that carries with it a sense of instant celebrity, but treats it as a casual, mundane activity. Saibil lets us into his DJ booth, playing all of his music from the stage, as he describes a particularly stressful show he once did for a French-owned, Chinese radio station. His story is of one likable Everyman trapped in a system governed by fools, from the company that owns the station to the local censor board. By the time he launches into a Kinisonesque rant, we completely identify with his rather outlandish situation.

— Peter Vesuwalla