Exotic Deadly: Or the MSG Play – Sensory Audience Guide Content

Environmental Considerations for Exotic Deadly: Or the MSG Play

• The performance takes place in the Theatre Off Jackson. It is a smaller theater, seating about 140 patrons. The ceiling is low and all seats are close to the stage.
• There are two aisles in the theatre, both of which are used by performers for entrances and exits during the show.
• The show is approximately 1 hour, 50 minutes in duration, without an intermission.
• Part of the sound system is located under the seats in the right section as you are facing the stage. This causes intermittent rumbling sensations under those seats.
• The back of the set includes 6 screens on which various images are displayed throughout the show.

Show Content Considerations for Exotic Deadly: Or the MSG Play

• This show includes comedic violence replicating video game combat.
• This show includes moments of more believable violence like someone being kicked while on the ground
• During the show, a beloved family member is knocked unconscious in a car accident.

In the following guide, the performance is divided by scenes that contain moments of heightened sensory intensity.

Key to Symbols

Auditory Intensity

 Emotional Intensity

Visual Intensity

Entrance through audience

Scenes	Sensory Category	Heightened Sensory Moments
Prologue		–   Entrance through right stairs
Scene 1 Breakfast & Good Morning Suburbia		–   Video game battle between Ami and Mom –   Lights rotate, video game sound effects –   After battle an actor enters through each set of stairs and speaks while on the stairs
Scene 2 Matt Dermon & Ben Anflank		–   At the beginning of the scene an actor enters through each stairway –   After eating the food, Ben falls to the floor, having a comedic heart attack –   A doctor comes to comedically revive him
Scene 3 School Restroom		–   A school bell rings, starting and ending the scene
Scene 4 Apple Slices & A-Ji-No-Mo-To		–   Mom talks about the death of Ojichan, her father –   Sound effect after mom says MSG –   Ami and Mom fight
Scene 5 Introducing Exotic Deadly		–   Ojichan laughs manically –   Entrance through right stairs –   School bell rings at the end of the scene
Scene 8 Family Fight		–   Mom and Ami fight
Scene 9 Kenji Disappeared & Chicken Fingers		–   Ami discovers Exotic Deadly isn’t who she appeared to be
Scene 11 Car Crash & Rock Bottom Choreo		–   Car crash described. Mom disappears to die on stage. –   Red light flashes on screen –   Actors enter on both staircases
Scene 12 At Rock Bottom		–   Water effects –   Scary beings at the bottom of the ocean –   Tokyo 1947 Traffic noises, Woman’s voice in Japanese
Scene 13 Ajinomoto, Karaoke, Kazuko		–   Dinging bell, “We’re gonna be rich!” –   Winding sound –   Actors spin –   Ajinomoto sings Karaoke –   Actor enters left stairs –   Lights flash, screen shakes, Ami spins
Scene 14 Guitar aka Work-Life Balance		–   Japanese announcement, recorded music, Exotic Deadly sings –   Loud electric guitar music –   Recorded rock music –   Loud karaoke
Scene 15 Bad Article, 7-11, Back to Rock Bottom		–   In Rock Bottom we heard cartoon running noises –   Ami is in distress, calling out, what’s happening to me? –   Ojichan says he’s fading
Scene 16 YooHoo, Producer, School Project		–   School bell rings –   Actor enters right stairs School bell after producer exits –
Scene 17 Dr. Steele		–   Asian music –   After Ami leaves there are electrical noises and lights flash on backdrop
Scene 18 FIGHT		–   Mission Impossible music –   Cartoon fight sounds and cartoon fighting –   Woman smacks Ami with paper –   Rat-a-tat sounds as woman exits
Scene 18 Part II		–   Man emerges from the side with a bright red light and stage fog –   Video game music –   Yelp reviews appears to kick Ami –   Ami attacks reviewer with Doritos –   Actor enters from left stairs
Scene 19 The Talent Show		–   Loud music –   Man on microphone –   Exotic Deadly appears to die and go to the Deep Dark –   Actors perform on the left and right stairs –   Loud karaoke –   Audience is encouraged to clap –   Ami sings –   Stage fog when center door is opened –   Mirror ball –   Full cast dances –   Streamers thrown at audience
Scene 20 Ami & Mom Make Breakfast Together		–   Mom and Ami resolve their differences   –   Actor appear in left stairs –   Loud music for finale

• Sensory Relaxed Performance
  September 13, 2 pm show
  https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/pork-filled/sensory-relaxed-msg 
• Japanese Closed Captioning
  Th. Sept 11 (7:30pm), Sun. Sept. 14 (2pm)
• English Closed Captioning
  Tue. Sept 16, Fri. Sept. 19 (both shows 7:30pm)
• Mandatory Masking
  Fri. Sept. 12, 7:30pm

Pork Filled Productions and SIS Productions, in association with the Theatre Off Jackson, present

Exotic Deadly: Or the MSG Play
by Keiko Green

September 6-20, 2025
preview September 5

Theatre Off Jackson
409 7th Ave. S.
in Seattle’s International District

($10 tickets are available through the generosity of 4Culture!)

It’s 1999, and Ami is an awkward, Japanese American high school girl, just trying to stay as invisible as possible. But her world comes crashing down with a terrible discovery: her family is responsible for manufacturing MSG, the poison spice getting all the kids hooked. Meanwhile, a mysterious new girl arrives from Japan. Her name? Exotic Deadly and she’s not playing by the rules. Who… or what is she? This whimsical, time-traveling adventure is a riotous romp through teenage crushes, family secrets, and female power as Ami realizes what she’s capable of, if she would just stop being invisible. 

Exotic Deadly is rated PG-14 for wild teen girl crushes, occasional profanity, potential time travel whiplash and culinary overstimulation.

The show runs 110 minutes with no intermission. Please be advised that the show will use fog and haze effects. These effects may impact individuals with respiratory conditions, allergies, or other sensitivities.

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Playwright, Keiko Green

Director, Mimi Katano

Cast

Designers and Staff

The Cast for Exotic Deadly: Or the MSG Play, by Keiko Green and directed by Mimi Katano

It’s 1999, and Ami is an awkward, Japanese American high school girl, just trying to stay as invisible as possible. But her world comes crashing down with a terrible discovery: her family is responsible for manufacturing MSG, the poison spice getting all the kids hooked. Meanwhile, a mysterious new girl arrives from Japan. Her name? Exotic Deadly and she’s not playing by the rules. Who… or what is she? This whimsical, time-traveling adventure is a riotous romp through teenage crushes, family secrets, and female power as Ami realizes what she’s capable of, if she would just stop being invisible. 

Exotic Deadly is rated PG-14 for wild teen girl crushes , occasional profanity, potential time travel whiplash and culinary overstimulation.

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