Here’s the first part of the video from Saturday’s Q&A session with Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang talking to Dr Amanda Rogers at London’s new Park Theatre in the week of the British premiere of Yellow Face. Produced by Special Relationship Productions (helmed by Kevin Shen and Lucy Fenton), Yellow Face was DHH’s first […]
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My review of Yellow Face in the Morning Star 4 stars Tuesday 28 May 2013 by Anna Chen Yellow Face Park Theatre, London N4 This smart and savvy comedy delivers a knock-out blow to any still-entrenched belief in certain crepuscular crannies of theatre land that east Asians can’t produce culture. Racism no longer has an
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Oh, the heartbreak of trying to save a tiny life. We even named him … or her. That’s how hopeful we were that we could save Cartman the baby great tit. Rescued from the neighbour’s cat, Cartman looks robust enough but something’s wrong and (s)he can’t fly. To save it from cats and foxes, we
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Anna and Dr Amanda Rogers at Thursday’s Yellow Face press night Amanda and Charles Shaar Murray on press night Kevin Shen (who plays DHH in Yellow Face) introduces today’s Q&A session with David Henry Hwang and Dr Amanda Rogers Amanda and David in the Yellow Face Q&A David Henry Hwang To the spanking new Park
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A culture-rammed week began with Crosstown Lightnin’ at the Black Velvet club in West Kensington last Saturday 18th May, supporting Bex Marshall and her band. Here’s Crosstown Lightnin’s encore with special guest Stephen Dale Petit. Charles Shaar Murray, Buffalo Bill Smith, Marc Jefferies and Pete Miles play “Werewolves of London” by Warren Zevon. Video by
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POMPEII, HERCULANEUM AND ICE AGE ART In the cultural whirl that’s been my life this past week, I’ve seen not only the sold-out sexily titled Life and Death: Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition (on until 29 September), I also caught Ice Age Art now in its final weeks: both at the British Museum. Some of the
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