Yoga Play is a joint presentation by La Boite Theatre and Riverside’s National Theatre of Parramatta. Written by Dipika Guha, it’s directed by Mina Morita.

Guha is well situated to comment on cultural globalisation. Kolkata-born, she was raised in India, Russia and the UK. She now resides in the USA. Her cultural vantage point is undisputed.

Appropriately, Yoga Play is set in Los Angeles, hub of the leisure wear universe. Very familiar to us via movies and sitcoms, the accents, the humour and the attitudes are all American.

Andrea Moor, Jemwel Danao and Nat Jobe in Yoga Play. Photo © Stephen Henry

Joan (Andrea Moor) is a new CEO of Solomon, an established active-wear brand. The company’s policies on cultural inclusivity and diversity are immediately established and communicated via the cast.

A blonde Caucasian in a duck egg blue trouser suit, Joan is clearly a corporate executive. She looks like a woman who possibly, might hold a gym membership or sometimes attend yoga classes. Her tendency to surge ahead and her predisposition to stress and panic suggests otherwise, however.

Filled with creative and corporate vision, she is enthusiastically assisted by her two, handsome, male...