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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The Yellowface sequence from Anna Chen’s solo show, Anna May Wong Must Die! (2009). Hollywood legends we have loved getting silly with the oriental make-up. There are many contenders who could have been added to this slideshow. Luise Rainer was cast as the wife in the MGM movie of Pearl S Buck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning blockbuster,
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I’m performing at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival tomorrow (Sunday 9th June) at 5.15pm in the Budvar Marquee. Here’s a poem. THE DISS PERSISTS For are we not a cruel race?I’m told that often,By people who are cruelWho make a virtue of their viciousnessIn the way only the truly callous canWho then turn around and
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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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So pleased to have received such sweet encouragement from Wilko Johnson for my poetry book, Reaching for my Gnu. (When I hear the word “culture”, I reach for my gnu.) I’ve uploaded the video again at full quality as my camera struggles in low light. Thank you, Wilko. x Anna plays the Stoke Newington Literature
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