'Asuncion' By Jesse Eisenberg: Highlights (VIDEO)

In Jesse Eisenberg's new play 'Asuncion,' which he also wrote, two 20-something roommates, Vinny (Justin Bartha) and Edgar (Eisenberg), confront their own latent racism when a new roommate Asuncion (Camille Mana) arrives from the Philippines. Edgar is plagued with over-educated remorse for the "sex slave," as he calls Asuncion (who's come to the US to marry their mutual friend), while Vinny prefers to think of her as a "sex worker" who happens to be hot. What with the fast-talking, and well-meaning awkwardness, the whole thing reads like the smartest-ever episode of "The Big Bang Theory," with Eisenberg playing a kinder, gentler Sheldon. Neither of which are bad things, at all. The show runs through Nov. 27 at New York's Cherry Lane Theater.

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[ParsimonyGreen]

01:47 AM on 11/30/2011

Buko Pie, the fraudster , my fiancee from the Philippines, disappeared leaving me to think she was sold into sex slavery, killed or something. Three terrifying months later and after being accused of running porn scams on another guy, I found her, she was engaged to another guy off a mail-order-site at the same time. I meet her in 1999 while looking for suppliers of large tapioca pearls... in 2006 we became engaged and business partners. It was quite costly... There was a business, a marriage, and an art project involved. I had worked hard and had a little to work with... She lost me a job a business and an art project and in the end it was a huge battle that cost me my life savings. I'm writing a book...

[ParsimonyGreen]

01:56 AM on 11/30/2011

Bagyo Buko Pie - Tangina this - http://tangina-this.blogspot.com/

[ParsimonyGreen]

02:09 AM on 11/30/2011

The girl with no number.
http://www.thegirlwithnonumber.com/

[Aequus]

04:29 PM on 11/02/2011

He must not actually do much at Facebook if he has time to be in plays.

[blizzard man robot voice]

03:49 PM on 11/02/2011

I can't wait to see him in the upcoming Arrested Development.