British East Asian Plays
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British East Asian Plays
About This Book
First collection of full-length plays from British East Asian playwrights
Playwrights: Yang Mai Ooi, Jeremy Tiang,Lucy Chai Lai-Tuen,Amy Ng, Stephen Hoo, Joel Tan and Daniel York Loh.
Selected and Edited: Cheryl Robson, Dr Amanda Rogers and Dr Ashley Thorpe. With an introduction: Dr Amanda Rogers and Dr Ashley Thorpe
A landmark collection of contemporary full-length plays by British East Asian writers. Exploring subjects such as cultural identity, the fragmentation of communities, tradition, invisibility and discrimination, these plays are ideal to perform.
With an introduction by academics Dr Amanda Rogers and Dr Ashley Thorpe which sets the plays into context and explores the hidden history of theatre from BEA theatre-makers.
This is a timely collection, being published within months of the opening of three plays by British East Asian playwrights in the UK, and a growing awareness in the mainstream press that that East Asians in British theatre are under-represented.
As Daniel York Loh writes:
"British East Asians were effectively side-lined in any debate on diversity in theatre where the general establishment view tends towards a binary black/white⌠which seems to exclude large swathes of the Asian continent."
As Kumiko Mendl of Yellow Earth theatre writes:
"There is an abundance of talent and experience to be found in the UK, and it's time that the rest of Britain woke up to the diversity of artists and practitioners around them â those that know their Kuan Han-ching as well as their Shakespeare."
The seven plays in the anthology are:
Bound Feet Blues by Yang Mai Ooi
The Last Days of Limehouse by Jeremy Tiang
Conversations with my Unknown Mother byLucy Chai Lai-Tuen
Special Occasions by Amy Ng
Jamaica Boy by Stephen Hoo
Tango by Joel Tan
The Fu Manchu Complex by Daniel York Loh
"Ooi has some unsettling examples of how, even today in the West, daintiness in a woman is often celebrated and a `beauty is pain' culture still exists." --The Stage "The Last Days of Limehouse is a finely balanced, well-written and superbly acted play that's well worth seeing." **** - --everything theatre "...a devilishly ironic spin on Sax Rohmer's classic novel that will leave you in hysterics...wildly satirical and steeped in sexual innuendo... the atmosphere created on stage is alluring." - --The Upcoming
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TANGO
KENNETH WOON-BUTLER | |
LIAM WOON-BUTLER | Kennethâs husband. |
JAYDEN WOON-BUTLER | Their adopted son. |
RICHARD WOON | Kennethâs father. |
ELAINE NARANDRAN | Kennethâs friend. |
LEE POH LIN | A waitress. |
BENMIN LEE | Poh Linâs nephew. |
ZULKIFLI BIN RAZAK (ZUL) | Benminâs lover. |
Koh Boon Pin | Kenneth |
Emil Marwa | Liam |
Lim Kay Siu | Richard |
Lok Meng Chue | Poh Lin |
Karen Tan | Elaine |
Benjamin Chow | Benmin |
Ruzaini Mazani | Zulkifli |
Dylan Jenkins | Jayden |
ACT ONE SCENE ONE
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Copyright
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Bound Feet Blues â A Life Told in Shoes
- The Last Days of Limehouse
- Jamaica Boy
- Special Occasions
- Conversations With My Unknown Mother
- Tango
- The Fu Manchu Complex
- Back Cover