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Being Human Festival: Anna Chen talks about Chinese comedy in culture debate

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Being Human Festival: Ha ha ha? Laughter and Humour Across Languages and Time. Had a lovely time last night talking at another event in the Being Human Festival. Laughter is generally regarded as something quintessentially human: being human means being able to laugh (or so Aristotle claimed). However, the things that make people laugh can […]

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Chinese British comic Anna Chen says WTF with the stereotypes? Subversive stand-up comedy in the week of Act for Change.

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British East Asian comedian Anna Chen on Asian stereotypes, terracotta warriors, and pets. This week, hundreds of actors, artists and creatives attended the Act for Change conference at the Young Vic in London looking at the alarming lack of diversity in TV, film, the media and the arts. Fed up with the continuing exclusion of

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Yellow Face triumph for David Henry Hwang launches London’s new Park Theatre: review

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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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The Book of Mormon review: South Park creators’ gentle mayhem in London

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Here’s my review of The Book of Mormon for the Morning Star Thursday 25th April 2013. The Book of Mormon may not represent the much-heralded death of satire but, with full-page ads taken out in the show programme by lampooned subjects The Lion King and the Mormon church itself, this effervescent musical inches us ever

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