In support of today’s One Day Without Us day of action in the UK, I’m posting my poetry on the subject throughout the day. With Charles Shaar Murray and Buffalo Bill Smith, St Ives festival 2009 Yellowface I’m Yellowface Gonna eat your soul I’m Yellowface I’m Yellowface Gonna swallow you whole I’m Yellowface Make you […]
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Anna Chen – 18 January 2017 East Asians, theatre practitioners, academics and friends protest against Yellowface casting in Howard Barker play, In the Depths of Dead Love, at the Print Room 19th January 2017 This Thursday (19th January) sees a peaceful protest of Chinese, East Asians, theatre practitioners, academics and friends at the Print Room
When does humour stop being funny and morph into racism? By actress Lucy Sheen I have a sense of humour. A pretty good one, sometimes it goes a little dark. Hell I loved Nighty Nighty the deeply dark and disturbing comedy by Julia Davis. I even ended up in the second series! Other times it
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BEAA founding members at Opening The Door, L to R: Michelle Lee, Lucy Sheen, Anna Chen, Jennifer Lim, Paul Hyu, Amanda Rogers, Kathryn Golding and Daniel York February 11th marks the first anniversary of the groundbreaking Opening the Door event at the Young Vic. This was the first positive concrete step offered by a slice
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Part 1 of the film on YouTube of David Henry Hwang’s scintillating play, Yellow Face. Bloody mahvellous! Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s website here: Home Anna’s food blog here: http://annacheneats.blogspot.com/
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The Yellowface sequence from Anna Chen’s solo show, Anna May Wong Must Die! (2009). Hollywood legends we have loved getting silly with the oriental make-up. There are many contenders who could have been added to this slideshow. Luise Rainer was cast as the wife in the MGM movie of Pearl S Buck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning blockbuster,
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