British East Asian Plays

<p>First collection of full-length plays from British East Asian playwrights including: Yang-May Ooi Jeremy Tiang Stephen Hoo Amy Ng Lucy Chau Lai-Tuen Joel Tan and Daniel York Loh.</p><p></p><p>A landmark collection of contemporary full-length plays by British East Asian writers. Exploring subjects such as cultural identity the fragmentation of communities tradition invisibility and discrimination these plays are ideal to perform.</p><p></p><p>With an introduction by academics Dr Amanda Rogers and Dr Ashley Thorpe which sets the plays into context and explores the hidden history of theatre from BEA theatre-makers.</p><p></p><p>This is a timely collection being published within months of the opening of three plays by British East Asian playwrights in the UK and a growing awareness in the mainstream press that East Asians in British theatre are under-represented. As Daniel York Loh writes: British East Asians were effectively side-lined in any debate on diversity in theatre where the general establishment view tends towards a binary black/white... which seems to exclude large swathes of the Asian continent.</p><p></p><p>The seven plays in the anthology are:</p><ul><li>Bound Feet Blues by Yang-May Ooi</li><li>The Last Days of Limehouse by Jeremy Tiang</li><li>Jamaica Boy by Stephen Hoo</li><li>Special Occasions by Amy Ng</li><li>Conversations with my Unknown Mother by Lucy Chau Lai-Tuen</li><li>Tango by Joel Tan</li><li>The Fu Manchu Complex by Daniel York Loh</li></ul>