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Love You Wrong Time is an uproarious, raunchy, and radically joyful song cycle from your new favorite Korean and Filipina-Vietnamese musical duo. Part cabaret, part game show, part stand-up, and all heart, this flamboyant musical comedy follows two friends looking for love while navigating yellow fever, cultural stereotypes, and the fetishization of Asian femmes.
Blending biting satire with virtuosic spectacle, the show leaps across genres—from K-pop to country to Gaga-style anthems—while inviting audiences to play for prizes in “ricebreakers” and reenactments. The book includes original sheet music as well as behind-the-scenes insights into the show’s evolving creative process. Disrupting the subservient “model minority” myth, Love You Wrong Time is a battle cry for Asians ready to make a riot, creating a space for reclamation and resistance. It’s a good time with teeth.
"Love You Wrong Time is sharp, urgent, engaging social commentary in the tradition of Margaret Cho, Ali Wong, and especially the underrated performance artist Kate Rigg."
–Glenn Sumi, So Sumi
"Rather than easing the audience in, Deanna H. Choi and Maddie Bautista prefer to kick the door down with laughter and a song. This is their ship, and beneath the raucous humour lies a depth of pain, rage, and hard-won power honoured by the two captains."
–Robert Kuang, Stir
Erin Brubacher is a multidisciplinary artist. Her work has taken her to contexts including the Edinburgh International Festival (Scotland), Theater der Welt (Germany), Festival Internacional Cervantino (Mexico), Canadian Stage (Toronto), and the National Arts Centre (Ottawa). Known for directing collaboratively created performance works, past projects include the award-winning productions of Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools and Concord Floral. She is the author of three books in three genres: the poetry collection In the small hours, the performance text/700 km walk memoir 7th Cousins: An Automythography (co-authored with Christine Brubaker), and most recently the novel These Songs I Know By Heart. Erin is driven by the desire to make meeting places: for her, art is a framework that serves to gather people who might not otherwise be in a room together.
Deanna H. Choi lives, breathes, and dreams a life in theatre. She is fascinated by the interaction between sound, music, evolution, architecture, and the impact of live performance on human behavior. She has collaborated on over 150 productions across Turtle Island and the UK, composing music and designing sonic environments for stage, screen, and multimedia. In a past life she trained as a classical violinist and studied behavioral neuroscience, but to her parents’ chagrin left academia to join the proverbial circus. Her most fulfilling role is in teaching sound design, especially at the National Theatre School of Canada.
Maddie Bautista is a Bi, Saudi Arabia–born Filipina sound designer and composer. You can catch Maddie creating and shaping sound in iconic theatres across the country—from composing original music in the earliest stages of new work development, to tuning systems with live musicians and large casts. She has created music and sound designs for over 80 productions and counting across Canada, for theatres such as the Stratford Festival, Alberta Theatre Projects, the Grand Theatre, Theatre Aquarius, Soulpepper, Tarragon, and more. After the sun goes down, she moonlights as half of xLq with Jordan Campbell—a queer pop performance duo who tours across the country with their daring, interactive theatre and bizarre, grungy drag.