With charges of “sour grapes” and claims that east Asians couldn’t be cast in parts that had no “Chinese connection”, there’s an awful lot to discuss concerning the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Orphan of Zhao. So it’s a shame that the RSC declined an invitation to take part in a debate between members of the […]
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The Royal Shakespeare Company declined this chance to debate with members of the British East Asian Artists group who had been critical of the casting for The Orphan of Zhao, a Chinese classic. The 17 roles included only three BEAs, and those were in minor parts: chiefly working a puppet dog, and playing a maid
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Anna Chen – Thursday, 15 November 2012 At last it is out. I’ve been champing at the bit, positively having a conniption while all the reviews came out, but finally mine is published and here it is. A quick update: the British East Asian Artists have sprung up to challenge these archaic attitudes towards us
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Say hi to the man set to run the biggest superpower in the world (expected around 2015): President Xi Jinping The stand-out thing for me in China’s changeover of power as incoming President Xi Jinping takes his place at the helm, is the move towards privatisation. The neo-liberal economist Zhang Weiying keeps citing the west’s dependence
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Here for your pleasure is a video of my gig last night as a guest poet at the Farrago Poetry Slam London heat of the 2012 Slam championships. Congrats to Richard Marsh who goes on to the next heat. I’m performing “Poe”, “Daddy Freud”, “Travelogue” and “Ode to a Detox on Returning from St Ives”.
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Had we been ninja, we could have crept stealthily into the village without being seen. However, as we had done our research — which in this case consisted of being Chinese and paying attention — we blew into town and proceeded to make like we were proper Ingrish which, as we all know from recent
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