Theater-goers who enjoy avant-garde one-person shows should get a kick out of "Going Green the Wong Way," 8 p.m. Nov. 16, 17, Touchstone Theatre, 321 E. Fourth St., Bethlehem.

"It's really funny and silly. People who are jaded by environmentalism it's a fun way to enter into it," says Kristina Wong, the show's creator and performer. "This, for me, is one response that makes the journey more enjoyable."

The Touchstone performances are part of a northeastern United States tour by the Los Angeles-based actor-playwright, who bases the show on her real-life experiences with a 1981 Mercedes-Benz converted to run on vegetable oil.

"Going Green," which is recommended for mature audiences or "immature audiences," Wong quips premiered two years ago in Miami and has since played Lost Angeles, San Francisco and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

"I think people can relate to the frustrations of trying to do the right thing.

"It's interesting and relevant now," Wong adds during a post Superstorm Sandy telephone interview from on the road in New England. "We need to face the fact that global warming is real."

Her other work includes "Cat Lady" and "Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," the latter dealing with depression and what she says is a high rate of suicide among Asian-American women.

"Going Green" is an 80-min. performance piece presented in five acts with no intermission.

"We will need to wean ourselves off of convenience and having everything we want all the time," says Wong, who was an English and World Arts and Cultures major at UCLA.

In "Going Green," Wong recounts that when she was 11 she had a "Joan of Arc mission" to save the planet.

"Kids would tease me and make fun of me for caring.

"I have a good sense of humor about it," she reassures.

But the big question inquiring minds want to know is: Does Wong recycle?

"I do," she says.