Ben Brantley’s Review on Belarus Free Theatre
Posted April 19, 2011 at 4:47 pm
From Belarus, Dynamic Drama With Limited Means
by Ben Brantley, New York Times
The firecracker that is set off in the first seconds of the Belarus Free Theater’s astounding “Zone of Silence,” at La MaMa in the East Village, doesn’t make much noise, at least not as measured in decibels. But there’s a lot of power in the short, sharp pop of this homemade explosive. READ MORE >>
nthWORD Review: Raven
Posted April 15, 2011 at 2:00 pm
Raven by Yara Arts Group
Reviewed by Olena Jennings, nthWORD
Yara Arts Group’s performance piece “Raven” is based on the Ukrainian poem of the same name translated by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps. It was performed at La MaMa Experimental Theatre in New York City, where Yara Arts Group is a resident company, and directed by Virlana Tkacz. READ MORE >>
Poor Baby Bree in I Am Going to Run Away
April 13 – April 29, 2012
“When I first saw Bree it was like being transported into another era. What an amazing performer!” — Laurie Anderson
“A deeply touching, spot-on evocation of a moment in the distant theatrical past. It is also profoundly funny.” — Charles Busch
Archetypal waif Poor Baby Bree (Bree Benton) performs fifteen obscure songs from the golden age of vaudeville (1890s-1930s) in this tragicomic story, inspired by Victorian melodrama and early cinema, of a child tempted from Home and Mother by dreams of the circus, only to face disillusionment, homesickness, and her own lost innocence in the Big City.
Conceived by Bree Benton. Directed by David Schweizer. Musical Direction by Franklin Bruno (piano), featuring Karen Waltuch (viola) and Jacob Garchik (tuba and trombone).
nytheatre.com Review: Raven
Posted April 14, 2011 at 11:06 am
Raven
by Amy Lee Pearsall, nytheatre.com
Long before Edgar Allen Poe wove his avian-inspired narrative poem about love, death, and descent into madness, the raven served writers from Shakespeare to Marlowe as an ill omen foretelling of death or calamity. Ukrainian poet, playwright, and translator Oleh Lysheha found his own inspiration in this unfortunate fowl with his poem “Raven,” now adapted into a performance art piece of the same title by Yara Arts Group at La MaMa E.T.C. While the bird in this production does not manage to clear his reputation as a harbinger of doom, he does incite this ensemble to glorious flight. READ MORE >>
Prometheus
April 12 – April 29, 2012
by Skysaver Productions
Inspired by Aeschylus’ PROMETHEUS BOUND, Theodora Skipitares returns to the subject of medicine, with a look at stem cell science, genetic engineering, and organ theft. With a dazzling array of puppet styles and a bold use of scale, PROMETHEUS features live music composed by Sxip Shirey, multi-dimensional acrobatics by Jonathan Nosan in the title role, and video. PROMETHEUS asks the question: Whose body is it anyway?
S 16 – Luna Nera
April 6 – April 8, 2012
Written and directed by Gian Marco Lo Forte
S 16 – LUNA NERA is a live installation inspired by the children’s short story Ciaula discovers the Moon by Luigi Pirandello that identifies themes of displacement and isolation and explores the inhuman working and living condition of the piece’s protagonist, Crow, a young miner in a Sicilian sulfur mine.
The piece is conceived by Pioneers Go East Collective and performed in English with traditional songs in Sicilian (cantastorie music) and integrates video technology with projected paintings and sculptural elements that create visual and dramatic tensions to explore the isolation and claustrophobia of the protagonist.
Website: www.pioneersgoeast.org
PIONEERS GO EAST COLLECTIVE: Gian Marco Lo Forte/ Jiyoun Chang/ Rocco D’Santi/ Angela Wendt/ Abby Felder/ Mark Tambella/ Catherine Shaw/ Catherine Yew/ Adam Cuthbert
Playwright Recalls 1989 Chinese Student Uprisings
Posted April 8, 2011 at 3:27 pm
The Inspiration for “Beyond the Gate of Heavenly Place”
by Marsha Savitz, The Epoch Times
The New York-based La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club will host a compelling play-reading that explores the Tiananmen Square Massacre. With similar events continually unfolding in the Middle-East and North Africa, looking back to this Chinese uprising against totalitarianism is all the more timely.
I interviewed Jianguo Wu, one of the play’s two authors, on the collaboration and inspiration for Beyond the Gate of Heavenly Peace (the English translation for Tiananmen.) READ MORE >>
New York Irish Arts: Fall and Recover
Posted at 3:18 pm
Irish Modern Dance Theatre: Fall and Recover, the Souls of Victims of torture
by Owen Orel, New York Irish Arts
Fall and Recover, choreographed by John Scott, was to be in New York on March 17. But it got flagged by Homeland Security and had to be postponed until March 25, and it continues its run through April 9. (I talked to Scott for the podcast this week-!) READ MORE >>
Solomons Says: Fall and Recover
Posted April 6, 2011 at 3:09 pm
By Gus Solomons Jr., Solomon Says
When we think of Dublin, about the last thing that springs to mind is, African torture victims. And when you think of a dance by and about those victims, you’re not likely to say, “Wow, I really want to see that!” But John Scott’s Irish Modern Dance Theatre’s “Fall and Recover” at La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre (March 25-April 9) shatters dire expectations and allays fears. Subject matter, which in the wrong hands could turn maudlin, here becomes wonderfully uplifting. READ MORE >>
Village Voice Review: Fall and Recover
Posted April 3, 2011 at 8:04 pm
Julliard Revives Nijinska’s Les Noches; the Irish Modern Theatre Brings Fall and Recover to La MaMa
by Deborah Jowitt, Village Voice
A woman sitting on a white chair in La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre is telling a story, without hesitation or pauses, in an African language I don’t understand. From time to time, she chants in a high voice. Beside her sits a woman from a European country. Neither looks at the other, but from time to time, the second woman nods her head, as if she understands. After a while, she begins to echo the seemingly unconscious gestures the first woman uses as she speaks. In the program for John Scott’s Fall and Recover, neither of these women, Kiribu and Nina, reveals her last name or the name of the country where she has family. What they have in common, aside from performing in this work, are histories of pain. READ MORE >>
NY Times: Slide Show of Fall and Recover
Posted at 7:55 pm
NY Times Slide Show of Fall and Recover
by Julieta Cervantes
Just Do Art!: Trav. S.D. Tent Show Tetragrammaton
Posted April 1, 2011 at 1:55 pm
by Scott Stiffler, The Villager
An undead bluesman croons a mournful tune amidst bayou decay while keeping his gun trained on trespassers; a flim-flam man and his partner breeze into a respectful Connecticut town with a violent but artistically gifted Apeman in tow; a leisure-suited crooner strums the ukulele during intermission; and an accordion-wielding gypsy divines your future by peering into her mystic bowl of spaghetti. Oh, you’ll get all of this — and a little more — when you witness the sick and silly spectacle that is “Trav S.D.’s Tent Show Tetragrammaton.” This dark and funny collection of short plays plunges its audience down a dirty coal shoot which leads to a sooty pit where themes of identity and transformation marinate pulpy takes on American folk tales (whose twist endings will leave a bitter but satisfying taste in your mouth). Full disclosure: The damaged brain behind this production, Trav S.D., is a good friend of this publication (and author of a monthly column on Downtown theater). Nevertheless, we’d tell you if the show wasn’t worth your time (which it is). Become a believer by seeing for yourself — and by evening’s end, you’ll either be sold on Mr. S.D.’s talent as a playwright/performer or entirely enraged that he’s failed to live up to his own lofty standards. Either way, in the spirit of the show’s traveling carnival aesthetic, there will be no refunds. This Way to the Egress!
Project: Lohan
By D'Arcy Drollinger
April 29 – May 15, 2011
EXTENDED BY POPULAR DEMAND! NOW THRU MAY 15
Friday & Saturday at 10pm
Sunday at 5:30pm
Thursday, May 5 at 10pm
A multi-media experience chronicling the life of Lindsay Lohan: actress, singer and tabloid queen. With only found text and images from tabloids, magazines, entertainment TV and Internet gossip sites, Lohan’s arc from Disney starlet to convicted felon is reconstructed in an evocative timeline as both classic myth and Shakespearean tragedy – with surprising and poignant insights into Pop culture, the fragile nature of talent and the people who surround and exploit it.
From starlet to harlot, from hottie to hot mess, from fashion plate to prison inmate, Lindsay Lohan has been the subject of arguably one of the most publicized rise and fall in showbiz history. The youngest person to host the MTV movie awards and earning over 7 million a picture before she turned 18, Lindsay had it all, but her love/hate relationship with the paparazzi played a significant role in her seemingly out-of-control spiral. The money, the fame, the feuds, the media hungry parents, the lesbian lover, the insatiable paparazzi, 5 trips to rehab, two DUI’s, possession of cocaine, shoplifting, physical abuse and even carjacking – all played out in the public eye – will be reinterpreted for the stage.
Is Lindsay Lohan washed up at 24? Or with Google searches on the clothes she wears to court topping the 2011 Egyptian revolution, has she become the ultimate reality celebrity?
Playwright Drollinger, in an over-the-top arresting star-turn will play Lindsay. He/she will be joined by a fanciful cast, including: Clayton Dean Smith, Brandon Olson, Cindy Goldfield, Emily McGowan and Brian Reiss.
D’Arcy Drollinger’s (Playwright / Actor) works include: Scalpel!, The Possession of Mrs. Jones,
Pink Elephants, Above and Beyond the Valley of the Ultra Showgirls, Suburbia 3000, Shit & Champagne and The Cereal Killers. He has also worked as a producer, director and choreographer.
Other credits include: The Producers (first Broadway production), Hairspray the Musical (first Broadway production), Glamour, Glory and Gold (La Mama) and VH1’s Divas 2000 featuring RuPaul. Drollinger is a participant in the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop and a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.
Ben Rimalower (director) directed Joy (Actors Playhouse, Out Magazine: “Top Ten Theatre”), The Fabulous Life of a Size Zero (Daryl Roth/DR2 Theatre), Snoopy! Starring Sutton Foster (Symphony Space), And/or (Hot Festival) and Sodom the Musical (Kraine Theatre) as well as staged readings for Second Stage, The York, Dixon Place and Ensemble Studio Theatre. He conceived and directed Leslie Kritzer is Patti LuPone at Les Mouches (Time Out New York Award) and subsequently produced Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records’ long-awaited recording, Patti LuPone at Les Mouches (#25 on Billboard “Heatseekers” Chart), digitally restored from archival tapes of LuPone’s legendary live 1980 performances. In venues such as Joe’s Pub, Ars Nova, The Zipper Factory, SF’s Plush Room and LA’s Upright Cabaret, Ben has earned the title the “Midas of Cabaret” (The Advocate) helming a slew of solo shows for artists including Alec Mapa, Cole Escola, Our Lady J, Natalie Joy Johnson, Lindsey Alley, Molly Pope, Wendy Ho, John Hill, Scott Nevins, Kate Pazakis and Lance Horne in addition to producing and hosting the Laurie Beechman Theatre’s recurring variety show, Saturday Night Underground. In 2011, he has directed the premiere of Rachel Shukert and Michael Schulman’s You Like Me, An Evening of Classic Award Acceptance Speeches and Paul Iacono’s Prince/Elizabeth. Ben writes the column, The New Old Gay for akawilliam.com and is working on his first solo performance piece, recently chronicled in The New York Times feature, “The Impresario Who’s Keeping the ’80s Spirit Alive Downtown.” Assistant Director credits include Lonny Price’s productions of A Class Act (Manhattan Theatre Club, Broadway and Tokyo) and A Little Night Music (starring Patti LuPone, George Hearn and Zoe Caldwell) as well as the Emmy-winning Sweeney Todd. Ben studied Theatre Arts at U.C. Berkeley where he was the founding Artistic Director of BareStage (now celebrating its 15th anniversary).
Project: Lohan is and Equity Approved Showcase.
We couldn’t call it what we wanted to call it, so we called it HOLY CRAP!!
By Ronald Rand Production
April 28 – May 15, 2011
Preview – April 28, 2011
Opening – April 29, 2011
Wednesday – Saturday at 7:30pm
Sunday at 2:30pm
Saturday May 7 & May 14 at 2:30pm
The play that rocked Spain and the world. The most controversial play in a generation that caused Madrid’s archbishop to demand that it be banned, and incited thousands to march in the streets in protest.
A Prayer For Japan
April 25, 2011 at 7:30pm
La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club will present A Prayer For Japan, to benefit relief efforts in Japan, on Monday, April 25, 2011 at 7:30pm. Free admission.
La MaMa has a deep and ongoing history of presenting the art and culture of indigenous groups. La MaMa has gathered many of these performance groups, whose traditions honor the power of nature, to perform spiritual prayers, chants, and ritual dances, to help us reflect upon and bring attention to the recent natural disasters in Japan that have brought suffering to so many. The evening’s events will include spiritual prayers and chants to Mother Earth, and hope for the victims of the Tohoku region, where the earthquake hit.
A Shinto Ritual By The International Shinto Foundation
Reciting by Masafumi Nakanishi (Shinto priest) and dancing by Reina Hayashibara (Shrine maiden), along with court music, is integrated with the performance of “Urayasu No Mai,” a prayer and sacred offering for peace, dedicated to the deities. (shinto.org/isf)
Kinding Sindaw
A resident company of La MaMa since 2000, this traditional Filipino dance-theater ensemble performs dances that originate from the royal court dances of the Maranao Sultanate. Their repertory includes sacred, classic, and secular dances, combining grace and vigor, which directly reflect their rich natural environment. (kindingsindaw.org)
Matou
Ataahua Papa, Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Charley Buckland and Donna Kelly will present an honor song of tribute to those who have passed. The song includes a prayer in Lakota, a traditional Maori chant, Native flute music, acoustic guitar, percussion and haunting vocals.
Emi Toko, singer of Ainu traditional music
Recording artist Emi Toko will contribute a video performance singing Ainu music, accompanied by traditional musical instruments. As an Ainu cultural advisor, she conducts Ainu workshops throughout Japan. In 1997, she was invited by Tonkori player Oki to join the band Marewrew. In 2007, she created the group Riwkakant, with Takeshi Kainuma, and has recorded with Tonkori player, Nobuhiko Chiba, on Hunter, Riwkakant, and Double Fantasy/Riukakanto. (youtube.com/watch?v=ikIWLUWTVd0)
The Silver Cloud Dancers & Singers
This intertribal Native American singing & dancing troupe, which weave traditional with contemporary Native song & dance, will perform honoring prayer songs and drumming. Silver Cloud has been honored to perform at the commemoration ceremonies for the Year of the Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, The Public Theater, The Apollo, Roseland and many other New York venues. (silvercloudsingers.com)
Vicky Holt Takamine
A hula video participation by kumu hula, Vicky Holt Takamine, includes chanting and dance for the victims of the earthquake. Vicky is the founder and kumu hula of Pua Ali’i ‘Ilima in O’ahu and Papa Laua‘e O Makana, on the island of Kaua’i, and is the co-founder and executive director of PA‘I Foundation, an arts organization established to preserve and perpetuate Hawaiian cultural traditions for future generations. http://www.paifoundation.org/halau/pua-alii-ilima/
DONATIONS
In the La MaMa tradition, the hat will be passed to help support Japan’s relief efforts. All donations from the evening will go to “Make The Heaven,” a Japanese NGO in Japan working with the Japan Me group, a non-profit organization that is providing ongoing relief for victims in the area of Ishinomaki. Japan Me transports supplies to the disaster area and delivers these needed supplies directly to victims. In addition, the group places victims with volunteers across the country; and transports aid workers to the affected areas for rescue missions. For more information please visit maketheheaven.com/megumijapan.
Corporate sponsors include Miyazaki Brewery (miyanoyuki.co.jp) from Yokkaichi, Japan, who will be donating sacred sake that will be served to attendees as part of the live Shinto ritual. This sake has been dedicated to the Ise Shrine. The Japanese restaurant Sobaya (sobaya-nyc.com) will be donating food for the evening.
La MaMa is a unique theater institution with a worldwide reputation for daring work created by emerging and established artists performing a wide repertory of theater, dance, performance art, and music. Founded in 1961 by theater pioneer and legend, Ellen Stewart, La MaMa has produced and presented more than 3,000 theatrical productions to date and is a vital part of the fabric of cultural life in New York City and a beacon to aspiring artists from all over the world.
La MaMa provides a fully supportive home for artists and takes risks on unknown work. Artists such as Sam Shepard, Lanford Wilson, Philip Glass, Robert Wilson, Harvey Fierstein, Blue Man Group, David and Amy Sedaris, – and others whose names you haven’t heard of yet – began their careers at La MaMa. International artists introduced to America by La MaMa include Tadeusz Kantor, Andrei Serban, Kazuo Ohno and, more recently, the acclaimed Belarus Free Theatre. Over the course of our 50 years La MaMa has been honored with more than 30 OBIE Awards, dozens of Drama Desk and Bessie Awards and, in 2006, the late Ellen Stewart was recognized with a special TONY Award for “Excellence in the Theatre.”
La MaMa values its long relationship with Japan and was the first American theater organization to invite Japanese avant-garde artists to bring their work to New York in 1970. Founder Ellen Stewart was awarded the “Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Rosette” by the Emperor of Japan in 1994, and also received the Praemium Imperiale, a global arts prize awarded by the Japan Arts Association, in 2007.
In Celebration of Ellen Stewart (#100)
April 23, 2011 at 3pm
La Mama and Chris Kapp present COFFEEHOUSE CHRONICLE
In Celebration of Ellen Stewart
Free Admission, First Come, First Served
In Vino Veritas
April 20 – April 20, 2011 at 8pm
In wine we speak the truth, but is it so? Come and find out…
a bar, 6 tables, 8 people and 1 too many!
Conceived and directed by Giacomo Rocchini
Edited by Martin Cohen
Production Manager: Micheal Tartaglia
Music director: Evan Berg
Set Designer: Lia Woertendyke
Cast: Matt Alford, Jeffrey Coyne, Ginger Graham, Kenneth Heaton, Theresa Linnihan, Katelyn Marshall, Niko Papastefanou & Arnaud Spanos
Stationary Excess and Karen Davis Does La MaMa
April 15 – April 24, 2011
Stationary Excess (Sometimes I Think I Am Helping But Really I’m Just Making Things Worse) by Made in China
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Karen Davis Does La MaMa (with Special Guest Jenny Fresh!)
Friday & Saturday at 10pm
Sunday at 5:30pm
Stationary Excess
Imprisoned on an exercise bicycle, a lone woman tells the story of an extraordinary man. Stationary Excess is a daringly honest solo performance that evokes the absurdity, pain and hilarity of being alone. A bizarre and intimate experience that will scream out to anyone who has ever loved and lost.
Karen Davis Does La MaMa
Karen Davis is a mover and a shaker bringing quality laughs to diverse NYC audiences for almost eight months. Her stand-up explores all the loneliness and joy that comes from being a single, unemployed gal in the City. Expect dazzling word-play, self-deprecation and sock puppets.
Creative Team for Stationary Excess
Tim Cowbury (writer and creator) previous credits include No Longer I (The Public Theater), Little Thing, Light Thing (Bush Theatre), Fantasia (Old Vic), Pass it On; Out There and Cartography (Soho Theatre). He is part of the Royal Court Theatre’s Young Writers programme, Soho Theatre’s HUB programme, and Old Vic New Voices club.
Jessica Latowicki (performer and creator) is a live artist based in London whose previous work has been performed at Shunt Lounge, the BAC, Chisenhale Dance Space, The ICA and Brick Box. She has a BFA in Drama from NYU, Tisch School of the Arts and MA in Performance Making from Goldsmiths University of London.
Made In China is the collaborative work of Tim Cowbury and Jessica Latowicki. They are currently based in London. Made In China’s mission is to make visceral, accessible performances at the juncture of playwriting and live art. They have made shows in bathtubs, on exercise bikes and customized Ikea trolleys. They have spliced moving speeches and great stories with ice-cream eating and beer drinking contests. They have repeatedly done stupid dances to great music but never the reverse. And they have always made a mess, and entertained.
Creative Team for Karen Davis Does La MaMa
Jess Barbagallo (Writer) is a writer and performer. She has performed with Big Dance Theater (The Other Here), Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf (Panic, Drum of the Waves of Horikawa, It Cannot Be Called Our Mother But Our Graves) and The Builders Association (Jet Lag). She is a founding member of Half Straddle (The Knock-Out Blow, Nurses in New England, In the Pony Palace/Football), the Red Terror Squad (Family Bed) and the Dyke Division of 2HC (Room for Cream). Other credits include An Oresteia (CSC) and MilkMilkLemonade (Josh Conkel/The Management). She has written the plays Grey-Eyed Dogs (Dixon Place Mondo Cane Commission), I’ll Meet You in Tijuana (Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab) and Saturn Nights (Incubator Arts Project). MFA: Brooklyn College.
Emily Davis (Performer) In addition to her work with Half Straddle (FAMILY, Nurses in New England, Girl Detective Agency, In the Pony Palace/FOOTBALL) Emily has worked with the NY-based companies Witness Relocation, Theater Mitu and The TEAM. She has developed work and performed with writers Jess Barbagallo, Trish Hartineaux, Erin Markey, Ben Forster, Micah Bloomberg and Dylan Dawson at The Invisible Dog, The Bushwick Starr, The Incubator Arts Project, Ars Nova, the NYU Graduate Acting and Film Programs, the Brooklyn College MFA Program, The Twenty-Five Cent Opera of San Francisco, Dixon Place, The Wild Project, The Ontological Theater, The Metropolitan Playhouse, CATCH, Brigham Young University, The Women’s Project, Sundance Theater Lab at White Oak, The Watermill Center, 3LD Center for Design and Technology, Walker Art Center, Vanderbilt University, PS 122, New York Theater Workshop, Skidmore College, Kitchen Dog Theater, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and the Dallas Children’s Theater. Emily has also worked with filmmakers Andrew Simkiss (The Amy Character, official selection at the Palm Beach International Film Festival and the Arizona International Film Festival), Shal Ngo (Consolation Prize), and David Call (B.U.S.T, 2010 Dallas International Film Festival Special Jury Prize). She holds a BFA in Theater from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Julia Sirna-Frest (Performer) is a founding member of Half Straddle and was most recently seen in their production In the Pony Palace/Football at the Bushwick Starr. Other Half Straddle productions include: The Knockout Blow (Ontological & HERE), Family (Ontological), Nurses in New England (Ohio). Other favorites: The Magic Flute (Target Margin), Rocky Philly (The Bushwick Starr) Babes in Toyland (Ohio). Julia is a member of Doll Parts a Dolly Parton cover band and a teaching artist for Opening Act and LEAP. She has also performed in readings and workshops at New Dramatists, Soho Rep and The Soho Think Tank
Belarus Free Theatre in Repertory
By Belarus Free Theatre
April 13 – May 15, 2011
“They should be seen by everyone who wants confirmation of the continuing relevance and vitality of theater as an art form..”
“Truly passionate, truly political theater…
Being Harold Pinter isn’t just admirable, it has virtues beyond its relevance and bravery.”
- Ben Brantley, THE NEW YORK TIMES
After its triumphant run during the Under the Rader Festival, La MaMa and The Public Theatre present the Belarus Free Theatre. Established in response to repression in “Europe’s last dictatorship,” the award-winning Belarusian Company—now outlawed at home—stages three productions in repertory.
Tickets are on sale now!
BEING HAROLD PINTER – Purchase Tickets Online
A poignant contemporary commentary on violence, oppression, freedom and human dignity.
ZONE OF SILENCE – Purchase Tickets Online
Belarusian taboos are explored in three chapters, Childhood Legends, Diverse, and Numbers.
DISCOVER LOVE – Purchase Tickets Online
A gripping original drama based on the true story of dissident Irina Krasovskaya and her husband Anatoly, who was “disappeared” 10 years ago.
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Beyond the Gate of Heavenly Peace
April 11, 2011 at 7:30pm
The story of four young Chinese who leave Beijing in search of a better life in Australia. Accompanied by a confucian spirit guide, each brings with them their own cover story while harbouring a secret as to where they were on the day of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
There will be a talkback with the authors, who are flying in for this event, following the reading
Featuring Tina Chilip, Johnson Chong, Angela Lin, Karen Oughtred, Henry Yuk & Lei Zhou
Jianguo Wu has been awarded Australia Council, Arts Victoria and Australia-China Council support to work as a writer. His novel Meandering Stream and the play Beyond the Gate of Heavenly Peace have made him the first mainland Chinese migrant author in Australia to have a novel and a play published in English.
John Ashton is an Australian writer whose work has been published in Penguin and performed at LaMama in Melbourne. He has worked with Jianguo Wu on two prize winning short stories, several plays, of which Kites of Broken Strings was a recipient of the RE Ross, Victorain Premiers Award, 2005. His own work explores the themes of “transitional disruptions” and how we respond as community and individuals. He is currently working on a multimedia performance piece for the town of Gundagai set around the floods of 1852.