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Her Life Is The Prize, Those Robots Are Cancer – San Diego Story

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Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is not some zappy Japanese anime game for the cell phone. Instead, it’s a very moving account of a young woman’s battle with cancer. Really. She just happens to be Asian. Named Yoshimi. And “pink robots” is the name her doctor gives to the rogue cells, which are suddenly devastating her body. Kimiko Glenn and foes in Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots at La Jolla Playhouse. Kevin Berne Photo The music and the title come from a 2002 album by the group Flaming Lips, which apparently was vaguely thinking anime. But the stage production now at the La Jolla Playhouse is something else, billed as “music and lyrics by the Flaming Lips” and “story by Wayne Coyne & Des McAnuff.” (Coyne is the driving force of the Lips) Beyond quibble, this splendid and deeply satisfying show, near perfection in every element, is the creation of McAnuff, whose legendary ability to coordinate musical projects, from Big River through Jersey Boys to last season’s rethinking of Jesus Chr

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is not some zappy Japanese anime game for the cell phone. Instead, it’s a very moving account of a young woman’s battle with cancer. Really. She just happens to be Asian. Named Yoshimi. And “pink robots” is the name her doctor gives to the rogue cells, which are suddenly devastating her body. Kimiko Glenn and foes in Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots at La Jolla Playhouse. Kevin Berne Photo The music and the title come from a 2002 album by the group Flaming Lips, which apparently was vaguely thinking anime. But the stage production now at the La Jolla Playhouse is

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