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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Anna Chen – 25 June 2013 My column for the South China Morning Post magazine 9th June 2013. City scope: Chinese bask in the summer limelight Anna Chen in London Following one of the longest winters on record here, I’ve emerged blinking into the light to find my hometown has become a hot spot for Chinese
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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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My Morning Star interview with David Henry Hwang, whose play Yellow Face launched London’s new Park Theatre last month. ‘We’re pretty good on race sometimes but terrible on class’ East Asian playwright DAVID HENRY HWANG talks to Anna Chen about issues of cultural assimilation and equality of opportunity ONLY six months before I finally meet David
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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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