PERFORMANCE - Stories East and West, Belvoir St Upstairs Theatre, Sydney, 3 May 2010 [20.04.2010]
Performance 4a and Company B Belvoir present
Stories East and West
Directed by renowned storyteller, photographer and performer William Yang and producer/writer Annette Shun Wah.
Monday 3 May at 8.00pm
ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY
Belvoir St Upstairs Theatre
25 Belvoir St, Surry Hills Sydney
Six storytellers confront their family skeletons to flesh out the stories of the here and now. Accompanied by images from private collections, they reveal engaging and moving insights into family, identity, ambition, confusion and determination.
Daphne Lowe Kelley’s mother leaves the family village for the first time, crossing oceans in search of a missing husband. Father, now a lingerie salesman, didn’t know what was coming….
Poet Mary Tang’s Chinese horoscope predicted she would bring bad luck, so her family gave her away. She recounts the many ways in which she is lucky to be alive.
Choreographer/performer Paul Cordeiro’s mother almost had him convinced of their English ancestry, until his aunty said: “but look at our eyes”. How does he deal with being “not exactly Chinese”?
Actor/writer Joy Hopwood relates her arduous, but often hilarious quest – to become a Playschool presenter.
Malaysian-Chinese actor Teik-Kim Pok explores his boyhood fascination with the west within a family characterised by niggles between middle class relatives and the “country hicks”.
Visual artist Mai Long’s artwork ignited controversy for some in Sydney’s Vietnamese community, but brings her a better understanding of her family, particularly her dad, who was “not a communicator”.
Tickets: $25 (Concessions $20)
Bookings: www.belvoir.com.au or 02 9699 3444