Anna Chen – 11 August 2024, Suzy Wrong Stereotype Slayer hits Edinburgh Fringe Festival Thirty years ago today, I took my show, Suzy Wrong Human Cannon, to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, a historic first by a Chinese Brit. It was a ground-breaking challenge thrown down to the degrading stereotypes embedded deeply in western culture, and […]
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Being Human Festival: Ha ha ha? Laughter and Humour Across Languages and Time. Had a lovely time last night talking at another event in the Being Human Festival. Laughter is generally regarded as something quintessentially human: being human means being able to laugh (or so Aristotle claimed). However, the things that make people laugh can
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To add to the current wave of global misery, Robin Williams was found dead this morning, suspected of committing suicide after well-known bouts of depression. Deepest sympathy to his family and friends. It must have been in the 1980s (maybe earlier) but the story I was told shortly after I moved into leafy West Hampstead
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British East Asian comedian Anna Chen on Asian stereotypes, terracotta warriors, and pets. This week, hundreds of actors, artists and creatives attended the Act for Change conference at the Young Vic in London looking at the alarming lack of diversity in TV, film, the media and the arts. Fed up with the continuing exclusion of
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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Here’s my review of The Book of Mormon for the Morning Star Thursday 25th April 2013. The Book of Mormon may not represent the much-heralded death of satire but, with full-page ads taken out in the show programme by lampooned subjects The Lion King and the Mormon church itself, this effervescent musical inches us ever
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