Yellow Face by David Henry Hwang opens tonight National Theatre Shed for 3 weeks

Anna Chen – 5 May 2014 Gemma Chan and David Yip in Yellow Face, opening at the National Theatre Shed tonight. Here’s wishing that the cast of Yellow Face, by Tony-Award winner David Henry Hwang, break a leg in style when they open tonight at the National Theatre Shed. I thoroughly enjoyed the play when it […]

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Surfing the current wave of horrors: still trapped in that comatose science fiction writer’s fever-dream

It’s been a nightmare couple of months. Events that seem to confirm we are in fact trapped inside the dystopian fever-dream of a comatose science fiction writer are coming at us in an intensifying wave of horror. I’m marking this current wave from the disappearance of Malaysian Flight MH370 on 8th March with 239 passengers

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Class War comes to Penge: Ian Bone standing in Lewisham in the general election

Looking forward to seeing Class War liven up the general election. “Because all the other candidates are SCUM!” With very few exceptions, I’d say they were cutting with the overall mood. If you don’t like the sentiment, then make sure your candidate does their job, represents their constituency, protects the rights of their voters rather

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My poetry gig at YW8, The Proud Archivist, tomorrow at 8.30pm

Anna Chen performs poetry for the YW8 launch at The Proud Archivist in east London tomorrow. I’ll be doing some of the funnier poetry. It’s a new arts centre on the Regents Canal just off Kingland Road, near where I was born and raised, a po’ Chinese Brit gurl in deepest Hackney. Although the gig

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British East Asian Artists cheer on Somi Guha’s Top Gear racism complaint & BBC apology

BRITISH EAST ASIAN ARTISTS PRESS RELEASE 23RD APRIL 2014 British East Asian Artists congratulate Somi Guha for winning an apology from the BBC over racism Doubts remain about contradictory BBC statement The British East Asian Artists group (BEAA) are supporting actor Somi Guha’s formal complaint to the BBC for the broadcast of racist material and

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Women of the Blues on today’s final Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge, Resonance 104.4FM, 5pm

Bessie Smith, “Empress of the Blues” Today live at 5pm on Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge, Resonance 104.4FM, Charles Shaar Murray concludes his Guide to the Blues with Part 3, The Women of the Blues. Presented by Anna Chen with Charles Shaar Murray. Guest: Sarah Gillespie. Today’s final Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge of the series wraps

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